How to Use evade in a Sentence

evade

verb
Definition of evadenext
Synonyms for evadenext
  • The criminals have so far managed to evade the police.
  • The governor has been accused of evading the issue.
  • If there's that one white whale item that's been evading you, these are the places to find it.
    — Heather Bien, Southern Living, 12 July 2024
  • The same racialised and gendered stereotypes Tina used rock to evade were used to make fun of her.
    — Taylor Crumpton, refinery29.com, 26 May 2023
  • In one of the contests, the falcons race to catch pigeons that have been trained all year to evade them.
    — Erin Schaff Christina Goldbaum, New York Times, 15 Dec. 2022
  • The suspect was picked up by a black SUV that was able to evade police, the report says.
    — Cydney Henderson, USA TODAY, 22 June 2022
  • Those fine particles evade most masks and can lodge in lungs.
    — Kylie Martin, Detroit Free Press, 30 June 2023
  • He has been sanctioned by the U.S. and last year was charged with trying to evade sanctions.
    — Mstylav Chernov, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Now, some board members would do anything to evade the gaze of their constituents.
    — Hannah Natanson, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Mar. 2023
  • The cartel moved the hostages around to try to evade teams sent to rescue them, Villarreal said.
    — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Two of the people in his group were able to evade the car, but he was hit and the driver fled, according to the report.
    — David Clarey, Journal Sentinel, 13 Aug. 2024
  • That’s because pathogens have the ability to evolve to evade treatments.
    — Erin Prater, Fortune Well, 4 Mar. 2023
  • Gillespie was able to evade capture and is still considered to be at large.
    — Laura A. Bischoff, The Courier-Journal, 26 May 2023
  • The troopers and a K9 then attempted to detain Wing, who bit the dog in his efforts to evade arrest.
    — Landon Mion, Fox News, 9 July 2023
  • The teen then ditches the car a few blocks away and tries to evade police by fleeing via a subway platform.
    — Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 21 Aug. 2024
  • The woman drove over the median between the northbound and southbound lanes of 237 to evade the checkpoint.
    — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 13 Aug. 2022
  • Ringer scored from 14 yards out, showing a nifty cut to his left to evade the defense and walk into the endzone untouched.
    — James Weber, The Enquirer, 20 Aug. 2022
  • Trump expressed some surprise that Giuliani was able to evade the flying lunch.
    — Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker, 28 June 2022
  • Many tagged Beijing and Shanghai instead to evade the controls.
    — Bloomberg.com, 15 Aug. 2022
  • Many others who have sought to evade Russian military service have been caught and sent to the Ukraine front.
    — Markus Ziener, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2023
  • And because of it, he’s been able to take on both a spectrum of collabs and evade getting pigeonholed in the process.
    — Li Zhou, Vox, 15 June 2024
  • Many Ukrainian men are evading the draft by hiding at home or trying to bribe their way out of the battle.
    — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 4 Apr. 2024
  • The evading driver was about 5-foot-10 and was wearing a white hoodie with a black hood and sweat pants, police said.
    — Josh Labella, Connecticut Post, 29 Sep. 2024
  • The big picture can evade you as the moon conflicts with Mercury retrograde.
    — USA TODAY, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Police said there’s a third suspect still at large who managed to evade police on a small boat.
    — Sean Neumann, People.com, 16 Dec. 2024
  • For most of the film, Naya is camera-shy, somehow evading the hundreds of cameras that have been set up to view her.
    — Sebastian Mulder, The New Yorker, 12 July 2023
  • After they were indicted in the case, Paul fled to Canada to evade justice.
    — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2024
  • Stoodley fled the scene and managed to evade arrest until Wednesday.
    — Warren Kulo | Wkulo@al.com, al, 4 May 2023
  • Taka first places his claws into Mufasa’s paws to pull him up from the river and narrowly evade some hungry crocodiles.
    — Ashley Lee, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2024
  • Sam and Eric’s attempts to evade the aliens can be gripping and scary, but Day One is really a profoundly moving exploration of what survival really means.
    — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 19 Dec. 2024

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