Example sentences for: alluding

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

  • More likely, however, George is alluding to Falstaff's observation in Henry IV, Part I , that "the better part of valor is discretion" (Act V, Scene iv, line 120).

  • President Clinton's speech at a Martha's Vineyard church makes the front page at the NYT and the WP . While not alluding directly to the Lewinsky scandal, Clinton emphasizes forgiveness.

  • Both games have been referred to as paddleball , although the ambiguity of whether one is alluding to the one-wall version or the four-wall version must always be resolved.

  • 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.

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


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