evading
Example Sentences
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Evading pressure on third-and-4, Heinicke needled a tight throw to McLaurin, who evaded the tackle and ran into the end zone for a 19-yard touchdown.
From Washington Times • Dec. 4, 2022
Evading "numerous guards", the group travelled in the direction of a mountain that they had seen days earlier using constellations to guide them.
From BBC • Dec. 20, 2021
Evading creditors who might kill him, he has lived below ground for years, trapped in subterranean austerity and subsisting on food his wife sneaks down to him.
From The Guardian • Jan. 20, 2020
Evading Eritrean snipers along the desert border, Haile made it safely to a Sudanese refugee camp, where he befriended three other former Eritrean soldiers who shared his daring dream of journeying to America.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 22, 2016
Evading the question, Polly replied, “It was like nothing I have ever seen, sir.”
From "Copper Sun" by Sharon M. Draper
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