Example sentences for: allude

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

  • Although Grafton does not mention the fact, or even allude to it, his book appears at a momentous time in the life of the footnote.

  • ' 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.”

  • 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.

  • That function is now provided by our daily papers, which offer a kind of ongoing myth, related to but not a literal rendering of any actual events, much as the Old Testament account of Noah's Ark may allude to an actual flood, but it doesn't really matter.

  • 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.


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