Example sentences for: evasive

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

  • Her voice is unsteady, and her conclusions sometimes seem canned, evasive, not yet complete.

  • I have concluded that they are all games of Pin the Tail on the Donkey--blindfolded journalists trying to stick pins in evasive politicians.

  • If the answer is evasive, or a nonstarter ...

  • As the days have passed, though, I've had an unnerving revelation: The evasive man in the White House is a great role model for us parents.

  • Closely related to gobbledygook, but more malicious, is doublespeak . In 1973, the National Council of Teachers of English established a Committee on Public Doublespeak to help identify and stamp out evasive and obfuscating terminology slithering out of public sources, such as “uncontrolled contact with the ground” for “airplane crash” and “inoperative statement” for “lie.”


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