The phrase "allude to something" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when you want to refer to or hint at something indirectly without mentioning it explicitly.
Example: "In her speech, she alluded to the challenges the company faced last year without going into detail."
Alternatives: "refer to something indirectly" or "hint at something."
I could compare it to pornography; show everything and it doesn't work, allude to something and it's compelling.
(When I asked Bob Adams about Xemu, he said, "A small fraction of our scriptures are confidential, and I don't want to allude to something confidential").
While her creatures may allude to something orphic and arcane, Piccinini's own framework remains as observational and material as a dissecting room.
Old menus allude to something called "fancy cake," a confection conjured up by Albert Kumin, the Four Seasons' original, Swiss-born pastry chef.
What wasn't said was that we project and give meaning by the way we arrange and edit within the frame; through that we are able to allude to something beyond the immediate.
For instance, Glenn Beck, an excitable television host, likes to allude to something called The White Horse prophecy, according to which America's constitution, deemed to be divinely inspired, will one day "hang like a thread" until Mormon leaders rescue it.But mainstream America may learn to get over its old and unpleasant distrust.
Synecdoche, New York also alluded to something called Cotard syndrome.
Elliott Smith – Between the Bars I love how this is played with such delicacy and grace, while the words seem to be alluding to something far more sinister.
It alludes to something in general in the food industry that usually the person trying to make everyone happy could be a little crazy.
That sentence comes from the poet Dennis O'Driscoll's Bloodaxe Book of Poetry Quotations, and it alludes to something Muldoon does very well: he leads you on, with a strange train of thought.
One of the core venues for this techno-pagan bacchanal is former dog-biscuit factory Sisyphos, its name alluding to something endless and mystic – torturous even – and its cyberpunk junkyard, complete with beach, has a vibrant community of freaks.
