Example sentences for: allusion

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

  • not to mention Poe's odd allusion in For Annie :

  • P.S.: A personal aside: Your allusion to Earl Browder fell wide of the polemical mark with me, because I actually lived next door to Earl Browder as a child.

  • 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."

  • 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.

  • This professional audience for difficult "texts" created the demand that Pynchon first filled with V. and Gravity's Rainbow , the semiotic monoliths whose mix of scientific imagery, Cold War absurdity, and Joycean allusion provided a kind of full-employment program for a generation of rising postdocs.


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