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
Was he a draft dodger who fled to Canada on principle to escape military service?
From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2024
Though he was sometimes labeled a draft dodger, he was very much the opposite.
From New York Times • Feb. 7, 2023
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
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
