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Example sentences for: allusion

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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.
The allusion is to the sticks with which boys played at cat.
It's a reference only, a delicate allusion to that deeply satisfying modern icon, the brassiere-clad bosom with its distinctively engineered shape.
This description was, of course, an allusion to the solecism that has been used to promote Miller Lite: “Lite has a third less calories than their regular beer.”
8. Coffin nail is a later allusion to `cigarette': in its earlier metaphoric life it referred to anything that might serve to drive one to an early grave; indeed, some early Western saloons sold tokens bearing the words “coffin nail” stamped on them which were good for a shot of redeye.