How to Use evade in a Sentence

evade

verb

• The criminals have so far managed to evade the police.
• The governor has been accused of evading the issue.
• Since then, new virus variants have displaced the original strain and evade some of the protection from the original shots.
  — Peter Loftus, WSJ, 21 Aug. 2022
• Burrow had to scramble a handful of times to evade rushers and put up 26 yards on four carries to boost the team average.
  — Andrew Gillis, cleveland, 18 Sep. 2022
• Despite their minuscule eyes and a brain roughly 1 million times smaller than yours, flies can evade almost every swat.
  — CNN, 7 Sep. 2022
• The report noted that a review of the police cruiser’s car video showed the suspect while trying to evade police went through a stop sign and two red lights at high speed.
  — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2022
• He was spotted in Guatemala in 2017 and in Belize a year later but continued to evade capture.
  — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 30 Aug. 2022
• Gonzalez swerved through parking lots and neighborhood streets to evade law enforcement, Olivarez continued.
  — Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024
• Williams had to evade pressure in the pocket, then broke to his right and, with two Jacksonville Jaguars defenders on his tail, spotted Kmet leaking into a wide-open space.
  — Dan Wiederer, Chicago Tribune, 26 Oct. 2024
• Stealth fighters are those that are designed to evade radar and other monitoring to conduct missions without being detected or intercepted.
  — Simone McCarthy, CNN, 5 Nov. 2024
• If there's that one white whale item that's been evading you, these are the places to find it.
  — Heather Bien, Southern Living, 12 July 2024
• The same racialised and gendered stereotypes Tina used rock to evade were used to make fun of her.
  — Taylor Crumpton, refinery29.com, 26 May 2023
• In one of the contests, the falcons race to catch pigeons that have been trained all year to evade them.
  — Erin Schaff Christina Goldbaum, New York Times, 15 Dec. 2022
• Those fine particles evade most masks and can lodge in lungs.
  — Kylie Martin, Detroit Free Press, 30 June 2023
• He has been sanctioned by the U.S. and last year was charged with trying to evade sanctions.
  — Mstylav Chernov, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Mar. 2023
• Now, some board members would do anything to evade the gaze of their constituents.
  — Hannah Natanson, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Mar. 2023
• The cartel moved the hostages around to try to evade teams sent to rescue them, Villarreal said.
  — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 9 Mar. 2023
• Two of the people in his group were able to evade the car, but he was hit and the driver fled, according to the report.
  — David Clarey, Journal Sentinel, 13 Aug. 2024
• That’s because pathogens have the ability to evolve to evade treatments.
  — Erin Prater, Fortune Well, 4 Mar. 2023
• Gillespie was able to evade capture and is still considered to be at large.
  — Laura A. Bischoff, The Courier-Journal, 26 May 2023
• The troopers and a K9 then attempted to detain Wing, who bit the dog in his efforts to evade arrest.
  — Landon Mion, Fox News, 9 July 2023
• The teen then ditches the car a few blocks away and tries to evade police by fleeing via a subway platform.
  — Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 21 Aug. 2024
• Many others who have sought to evade Russian military service have been caught and sent to the Ukraine front.
  — Markus Ziener, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2023
• And because of it, he’s been able to take on both a spectrum of collabs and evade getting pigeonholed in the process.
  — Li Zhou, Vox, 15 June 2024
• Many Ukrainian men are evading the draft by hiding at home or trying to bribe their way out of the battle.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 4 Apr. 2024
• The evading driver was about 5-foot-10 and was wearing a white hoodie with a black hood and sweat pants, police said.
  — Josh Labella, Connecticut Post, 29 Sep. 2024
• The big picture can evade you as the moon conflicts with Mercury retrograde.
  — USA TODAY, 25 Aug. 2023
• For most of the film, Naya is camera-shy, somehow evading the hundreds of cameras that have been set up to view her.
  — Sebastian Mulder, The New Yorker, 12 July 2023
• After they were indicted in the case, Paul fled to Canada to evade justice.
  — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2024
• El Monte police said that charges of kidnapping and felony evading would be submitted to the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office.
  — Colleen Shalby, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 3 Dec 2024