dodger

Example Sentences

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The sense of compromise in some of his orchestral recordings can be hard to shake off; one Times critic called him “the most artful dodger of major issues now before the public.”

From New York Times • Jan. 21, 2021

"There's a lot of people who just think I was a tax dodger and that's not the case," says John.

From BBC • Oct. 25, 2020

Moreover, as Risen documents, it established this son of a wealthy Civil War draft dodger as the embodiment of America’s emergence as a world power.

From Washington Post • Jul. 18, 2019

Arnold Hudson said that as a black man from South Los Angeles, he saw no future as a convicted draft dodger.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 29, 2018

But that dodger, as soon as he had caught the woman’s eye and nodded, slipped away to join the ship.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer