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.
  • 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
  • The other boy swam across a canal to evade officers, the Tweet said.
    Angie Dimichele, sun-sentinel.com, 4 Apr. 2022
  • 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
  • The suspect was picked up by a black SUV that was able to evade police, the report says.
    Cydney Henderson, USA TODAY, 22 June 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
  • For this enigmatic bird, storms aren’t a threat to evade but a ticket to their next meal.
    Scott Travers, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • The woman drove over the median between the northbound and southbound lanes of 237 to evade the checkpoint.
    Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 13 Aug. 2022
  • In the drill, Mr. Hector would punch the practice pads with each arm, then evade strikes from each side, punch again, then use each elbow to block.
    New York Times, 29 Apr. 2022
  • Ringer scored from 14 yards out, showing a nifty cut to his left to evade the defense and walk into the endzone untouched.
    James Weber, The Enquirer, 20 Aug. 2022
  • Trump expressed some surprise that Giuliani was able to evade the flying lunch.
    Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker, 28 June 2022
  • Many tagged Beijing and Shanghai instead to evade the controls.
    Bloomberg.com, 15 Aug. 2022
  • 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
  • Instead of obeying a court order, Mr. Trump is trying to evade it.
    Graham Kates, CBS News, 7 Apr. 2022
  • Sibley ran across the lot, behind some other cars parked in the car wash bays and behind a dumpster while trying to evade the gunmen, the footage shows.
    Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Mar. 2025
  • But then that peripheral shooter will get lucky, evade three hits in a row, and suddenly the boss, perhaps sensing a soft target, is at that fighter's back.
    Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 5 Mar. 2025

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