Example sentences for: alluding

How can you use “alluding” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • "Administered by some of the most eminent men who contributed to its formation," Adams said, alluding to his own father, "..

  • Few people today know what he meant by the lovely word sublunary . Literally, it means "beneath the moon," and Johnson was alluding to an ancient, widespread belief that there was an unbreachable division between the cosmos, thought to be pristine, lawful, and unchanging, and our grubby, chaotic Earth below.

  • When one of these women gave birth to a child without knowing which sailor had fathered it, the paternity was logged as “gun,” perhaps alluding to the midship gun, which was often located near the makeshift maternity room.

  • He was alluding to a rarely spoken but widely known truth: There are two cultural styles of basketball, which we can conveniently label with the familiar code words "inner city" and "suburban."

  • hobby horse A hobby, a chosen occupation, alluding to the riding of a toy horse.


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