DODGE in a Sentence

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For DODGE, below is one of 33 sentences:
TOM dodged hither and thither through lanes until he was well out of the track of returning scholars, and then fell into a moody jog.

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 Meanings and Examples of DODGE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
dodge
 v.  avoid a blow by moving or shifting quickly aside; shifty or ingenious trick
Classic Sentence: (25 in 2 pages)
1  In fact it was a good dodge to volunteer "I must not touch," when you looked at the tools on the glass shelves in Father's office.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
2  Fortunately, Jake was in such a position that he could dodge it.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XVIII
3  He smiled briefly when he saw men dodge and duck at the long screechings of shells that were thrown in giant handfuls over them.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
4  You never knowed a sound dodge around so, and swap places so quick and so much.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV.
5  'Oh, this is the boss dodge, ther' ain't no mistake 'bout it.'
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV.
6  'Don't play the innocent dodge,' says Brevet.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—HOW JEAN MAY BECOME CHAMP
7  He come along one day, and he see she was a-witching him, so he took up a rock, and if she hadn't dodged, he'd a got her.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
8  TOM dodged hither and thither through lanes until he was well out of the track of returning scholars, and then fell into a moody jog.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
9  He catched me a couple of times and thrashed me, but I went to school just the same, and dodged him or outrun him most of the time.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI.
10  We was in the path to the mill; and when they got pretty close on to us we dodged into the bush and let them go by, and then dropped in behind them.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL.
11  Aunt Sally she stuck to the sick-room all day and all night, and every time I see Uncle Silas mooning around I dodged him.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII.
12  Automatically, she dodged behind the curtain and peered fascinated at him through the dim folds of the cloth, so startled that the breath went out of her lungs with a gasp.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
13  Whenever she was restless she dodged her thoughts by the familiar vagabond fallacy of running away from them, of moving on to a new place, and thus she persuaded herself that she was tranquil.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
14  They came to a residence district, and he sprang up a lamppost and blew out the light, and then the two dodged into the shelter of an area step and hid in silence.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 25
15  The youth ducked and dodged for a time and achieved a few unsatisfactory views of the enemy.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20
Example Sentence:
1  Before summer, one challenge lawmakers can't dodge is the budget.
2  Whatever you do, work hard at it and don't try to dodge the column.
3  He dodged to avoid the hurtling bicycle.
4  The girl dodged behind a tree to hide from the other children.
5  When the enemy shot at him he dodged out of range.
6  Then Alice dodged behind a great thistle, to keep herself from being run over.
7  The crew of the Southern Supporter, an Australian customs vessel, has finally arrived here in Cape Town harbor after an epic three-week chase through the treacherous southern ocean, dodging icebergs and high seas to arrest the crew of a ship caught poaching rare Patagonian tooth fish.
8  He ran across the road, dodging the traffic.