Example sentences for: allusion

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

  •  . His terminology abounds in sexual allusion” (1962, 59).

  • Take shelter from the storm with Jimi Hendrix (if you can forgive the mixed musical allusion) in a new Bravo documentary, Searching for Jimi Hendrix ( Friday , Feb. 12.

  • 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."

  • I assume the term originated as a '40s or '50s hip allusion to the LP record.

  • 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.


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