How to Use evasive in a Sentence

evasive

adjective

• They took evasive action to avoid capture.
• She gave an evasive answer.
• But in the second part, that wily and evasive Durst is gone.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Apr. 2024
• Roberts got his fourth touchdown on an evasive 23-yard dash to the end zone.
  — Sean Collins, Dallas News, 24 Dec. 2020
• The Sox have been oddly evasive when asked about his progress.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 2 May 2021
• But he's not been evasive when it was brought to light, and he's faced it squarely.
  — NBC News, 11 Oct. 2020
• The shark tried to make a swift evasive move right before the collision.
  — Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 26 July 2024
• So an even more evasive form of XBB.1.5 could be showing up soon.
  — Jonathan Wolfe, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2023
• Wilder will be more cautious, more evasive and smarter.
  — Anthony Stitt, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2021
• That’s a very short amount of time to plan an evasive maneuver.
  — Eric MacK, Forbes, 15 July 2022
• Asked about the brawl in his press conference, Mullen was evasive.
  — Creg Stephenson | [e-mail], al, 1 Nov. 2020
• The somewhat evasive answer to that question, at least for now, is that a shot is still a shot.
  — Gregory Barber, Wired, 5 Feb. 2021
• For a while, jabs in the arm were enough, but then came the vaccine-evasive Omicron variant late last year.
  — Grady McGregor, Fortune, 17 Sep. 2022
• Most were evasive when asked about the planning efforts or the trip leader.
  — Fox News, 7 May 2021
• To do so is the real work—and pleasure—of reading this subtle and evasive book.
  — Sarah Chihaya, The Atlantic, 26 Sep. 2022
• When asked if Gilmore was in Foxboro, Belichick was evasive in his answer.
  — Mark Daniels, USA TODAY, 14 June 2021
• Tafolla said Yeng grew evasive around the end of 2018 about plans to move forward with the company.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Oct. 2019
• The problem with it may be simpler, more evasive of review.
  — Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 19 Nov. 2021
• In order to avoid a collision, the U.S. craft was forced to take evasive action.
  — Fox News, 29 Dec. 2022
• The car did not appear to brake or take any other evasive action.
  — Russ Mitchell, latimes.com, 22 Mar. 2018
• Trump, likewise, has been highly evasive on the subject of Sater.
  — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 28 Aug. 2017
• Neither was damaged and no sailors were hurt as a result of the evasive actions.
  — Matt Seyler, ABC News, 1 Dec. 2022
• Both Portillo's and Andiamo were evasive when asked about the plans.
  — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 20 Feb. 2020
• If your husband continues to be evasive, talk to a lawyer.
  — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 27 July 2022
• The man drove at the deputy, who was able to take an evasive backward maneuver to avoid a collision.
  — Cathy Kozlowicz, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 1 July 2020
• But consistency on both sides of the ball proved evasive.
  — Mike Jones, USA TODAY, 21 Sep. 2020
• The evasive reptile was neither a python nor from Australia.
  — Washington Post, 2 July 2021
• When the singer was evasive when answering questions about the girl in the video, Jane Doe became afraid she had been murdered.
  — Halle Kiefer, Vulture, 28 May 2021
• Trump was on the defensive and evasive, even on issues that should benefit him – and didn’t land much, if anything, that stuck.
  — Domenico Montanaro, NPR, 11 Sep. 2024
• These remarks can feel evasive, and also like attempts to veer away from the urge to decode Solondz’s provocations.
  — Elena Saavedra Buckley, The New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Dec 2024