Example sentences for: allude

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

  • ' Charles Stedman's History of the American War described, “It is to the famous Mischianza that we allude, or festival given in honor of sir William Howe, by some of the British officers at Philadelphia, when he was about to give up his command to return to England.”

  • IRA prisoners held by the British have famously used hunger striking, in part to allude to the famine--the most monumental historical example of British tyranny.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • The LAT and the WP allude to Haider's controversial 1991 praise of the Third Reich's "sound employment policies," while the NYT notes his resemblance to Kevin Costner, right down to his "amiable grin."


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