Example Sentences

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Eluding Garrett will be a key for Herbert, who entered Week 5 leading the league with 1,250 yards passing.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 7, 2022

Eluding US Border Patrol control is already fraught.

From The Guardian • Nov. 13, 2016

Eluding dockside reporters, his secretary, Dan Lamont, intercepted Frank’s homebound liner, slipping her onto a cutter, then into a Manhattan hotel.

From Washington Post

Eluding the purported gunmen �he did not explain how�the fugitive moved on, alone, to Albuquerque and Santa Fe, "where every time I looked around the FBI was on my trail."

From Time Magazine Archive

Eluding Jordan's undergraduate who was now engaged in an obstetrical conversation with two chorus girls, and who implored me to join him, I went inside.

From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald