Eluding
[ɪ'lu:dɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Elude
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Examples
- In this way he came very near succeeding in getting to his provision trains and eluding us with at least part of his army. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- If it were not for Fanny, who knows we are here, I should find pleasure in dodging and eluding him. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He saw no way of eluding Featherstone's stupid demand without incurring consequences which he liked less even than the task of fulfilling it. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I can imagine only one way of eluding this argument, which is by denying that uniformity of human actions, on which it is founded. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
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