allude
verb (used without object)
to refer casually or indirectly; make an allusion (usually followed byto ).
am alluding
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present progressiveof allude (1st person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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"You will, of course, immediately perceive that I am alluding to Donna Maria de Dolores de los Montez, Countess of Landsfeld."
From The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert by Horace Wyndham
Need I explain I am alluding to the nowaday passion for propelling oneself at a severe speed by dint of unstable and most precarious machinery?
From Baboo Jabberjee, B.A. by F. Anstey
I see I am alluding to what you never heard of.
From Gerald Fitzgerald The Chevalier by Charles James Lever
I am alluding to those who acquired their property in the land courts, and the Cromwellians, and the—I mean the rack-renters.'
From Muslin by George (George Augustus) Moore
Whilst I am alluding to the mistake of generalising, let me point out how erroneous it is ever, historically, to talk of Ireland as one country.
From The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent by Sir Home Gordon, Bart.
