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Example sentences for: allusion

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In Clinton's first inaugural, the only allusion to the race problem is in this sentence: "From our revolution, the Civil War, to the Great Depression to the civil rights movement, our people have always mustered the determination to construct from these crises the pillars of our history."
The same goes for "Moby Dick," despite the useful allusion to Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr's Ahab-like pursuit of proof of the president's sinfulness.
It has often been derives from the name of the clown Grock, an allusion to the red sunburnt noses of seaside holidaymakers.
One part of me says the allusion is nonreligious, having to do with an assessment of evil ...
. His terminology abounds in sexual allusion” (1962, 59).