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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Police said there’s a third suspect still at large who managed to evade police on a small boat.
  — Sean Neumann, People.com, 16 Dec. 2024
• 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
• Stoodley fled the scene and managed to evade arrest until Wednesday.
  — Warren Kulo | [e-mail], al, 4 May 2023
• Taka first places his claws into Mufasa’s paws to pull him up from the river and narrowly evade some hungry crocodiles.
  — Ashley Lee, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2024
• Sam and Eric’s attempts to evade the aliens can be gripping and scary, but Day One is really a profoundly moving exploration of what survival really means.
  — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 19 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Jan 2025