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  • verb Present participle of evade.

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Examples

  • The movie was enjoyable and tense at times in evading mechanized monsters.

    Movie Review: 9 « Colleen Anderson 2009

  • The charges against the Whizinator defendents are for conspiring to assist people in evading federal Dept of Transportation drug tests.

    Gee Whizz. False Penises are Illegal? : Law is Cool 2008

  • The Pilot was complimented for his quick action in evading an accident.

    I haven't posted about the Great Saskatchewan Meteorite... ewillett 2008

  • WPC Gill, aged-27 of Hounslow, assisted Omar Akbar in evading arrest by fleeing the country – thereby perverting the course of justice.

    Police and Thieves Laban 2005

  • WPC Gill, aged-27 of Hounslow, assisted Omar Akbar in evading arrest by fleeing the country – thereby perverting the course of justice.

    Police and Thieves Laban 2005

  • During the mission, the patrol was ambushed, and in evading the enemy, Bircham suffered a broken ankle and fragmentaion wounds.

    Birchim, James D. 1990

  • Man is a hunter and woman his prey, but she had succeeded in evading all pitfalls and keeping herself pure and good, since she already looked on herself as the mother of a priest.

    The Mother 1928

  • As I had no finesse in evading them, I took refuge either in silence or in impatient outbursts about it's being none of their business.

    Madeleine: An Autobiography Madeleine 1919

  • He charged the Government with cowardice in evading the responsibility that rested only on themselves and endeavouring to cast it upon the shoulders of Sir P. Wodehouse.

    Imperial Parliament 1864

  • Commissioners of the Confederate States of America to France and England, together with their Secretaries, having succeeded in evading the blockade, and in reaching the neutral port of Havannah, engaged berths on board the mail-steamer Trent, with a view to proceed to Europe by the ocean mail-steamer La Plata from St. Thomas.

    The Trent and the San Jacinto. 1861

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