Example Sentences

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"Perhaps you don't speak French, Mr. Tomlinson, so allow me to explain that I am alluding to men of wealth not born in the purple."

From The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley by Tracy, Louis

I am alluding, however, in this instance, to men-of-the-world.

From The Bell in the Fog and Other Stories by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn

Still less likely is it that they have ever been at Todi, for that is the name of the place I am alluding to.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876 by Various

"Are you pretending that I am alluding to myself, are you insulting me by suggesting that I mean that I am engaged to you?"

From A Girl of the Commune by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)

In the example to which I am alluding, the impulse seemed spontaneously to move the inhabitants of islands far apart, and apparently not in communication—certainly not in direct communication.

From A Strange Discovery by Dake, Charles Romyn