Example sentences for: alludes

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

  • The most authoritative of the letters I received countering my explanation of “cold turkey” came from an M.D. who said that “the expression alludes to the `gooseflesh' or `duck bumps' that appear on the skin of persons withdrawing from addiction to opiates.

  • The eerie assurance with which the authors insist that the Rules always work and that any deviation brings disaster is strangely nervous-making, like one of those chain letters that alludes darkly to people who dropped dead after failing to pass it on.

  • The novel's title alludes to a famous painting by Thomas Cole that hangs in a nearby museum.

  • This probably alludes either to the generosity of some Saint Bonifazio or to the profligacy of Pope Boniface VI.

  • But Stross fails to see the larger context for Microsoft's dominance, and we know that from the get-go, when he begins his book with a pretentious foreword that postulates the similarities between Henry Ford and Bill Gates, a comparison to which he alludes repeatedly over the next 239 pages.


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