Dodged
[dɔdʒd]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Dodge
Editor: Rae
Examples
- And how should I be able to answer, dodged in that way, in a strange place, on an empty stomach! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- But the disagreeable ordeal could not be dodged. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Here, he dodged backwards and forwards, and did all sorts of things while I looked helplessly at him. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Well, I reckon, was the reply of the other, as he dodged, with some alarm, the threatening honor. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- So we dodged--we were used to that by this time--and when the scouts reached the spot we had so lately occupied, we were absent. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
Editor: Rae