dodger

Example Sentences

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A "brazen" rail fare dodger has been fined more than £3,600 after failing to pay for a ticket on over a hundred journeys.

From BBC • Feb. 11, 2026

It was Ali who was the rebel, and people considered him a draft dodger.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 8, 2024

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

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

After calling in sick, he hopped into his newly purchased car and drove off to meet his friend Bill Wernecke, a fervent Nazi supporter and an expert draft dodger.

From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple