Example sentences for: allude

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

  • By the late nineteenth century, these uses of great and small became obsolete, but to go great guns continued to allude to the loudness, forcefulness, and large size of long-ago cannons and still means to `proceed with considerable momentum, to go full steam ahead, at full bore.

  • Clearly, we need a second category for those verbs that still allude directly to the name and that are consequently often written with a capital letter.

  • As she plays out the process of converting "humanitarian resupply" into "lethal resupply," Didion seems to allude (as she did in her book Miami ) to the theory that CIA-trained anti-Castro Cubans have been at work in more than a few dubious American exploits.

  • Bergman said that an early version of the script did allude to the Day One broadcast, but it was cut out.

  • .. to allude to an unfortunate habit which Prof.


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