Example Sentences

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Israeli officials have alluded to covert operations during the war.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 9, 2026

He was angry and apprehensive about the idea of taking a fourth shot, something that some French officials have alluded to as a possibility.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 7, 2022

On the way home, I stopped in New York to present these possibilities to William Shawn, to whom I have alluded as The New Yorker’s supreme eyeshade.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 6, 2020

Both have the same big dreams their fathers had, to grow the names and franchises, and achieve a level of financial success that may have alluded their parents' generation.

From BBC • Aug. 23, 2015

I have alluded several times to the hot springs at Kambu.

From Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 by Howard-Bury, Charles Kenneth