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
• 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
• Stoodley fled the scene and managed to evade arrest until Wednesday.
  — Warren Kulo | [e-mail], al, 4 May 2023
• That month, she had been charged with a misdemeanor for evading police.
  — Kamal Morgan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 Apr. 2024
• Defendants should not be able to evade justice no matter how much time has passed.
  — Brie Stimson, Fox News, 1 June 2024
• That is a common strategy used by seals and tortoises to evade sharks, the researchers said.
  — Rachel Pannett, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Oct. 2022
• On third-and-3, Milroe scrambled for a first down after evading the rush.
  — Nick Alvarez | [e-mail], al, 22 Apr. 2023
• And every one came from a different phone number, a tactic that evades spam blocks.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 7 Aug. 2024
• Netanyahu’s partners have promised to help him evade a conviction.
  — Tia Goldenberg, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Nov. 2022
• At one point, Diop zooms in on a security camera, as if to suggest that, even on its home turf, 26 can’t evade the very conditions that held it prisoner abroad.
  — Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 24 Oct. 2024
• And this year, studies from Robert’s lab revealed how static attracts pollen to butterflies and moths, and may help caterpillars to evade predators.
  — Max G. Levy, WIRED, 27 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Nov 2024