The word "alludes" is correct and usable in written English.
It is a verb used to describe a reference or hints without stating something directly. Example sentence: The author alludes to a mysterious past in his novel.
The poem grew from and alludes to a long evening of increasingly drunk conversation between me, Iain and a publishing colleague, with cigarette smoke thickening the air and blearing the one eye each of us kept on the television news updates, the night Chernobyl burned.
This is an argument made by the political scientist Gilles Kepel in his 2012 book Quatre-vingt-treize, a title that alludes to Victor Hugo's great novel of the Terror of 1793, and to the notorious Seine Saint-Denis district of Paris, which is known as "93" after its postcode.
He freely alludes to the lack of trust between the regime and its Kurds, a consequence of the Iranian-Kurdish insurgency that took place alongside the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s.
Mr Rollyson and Ms Paddock, predictably, attribute this to Ms Sontag's own unacknowledged lesbianism, noting that she never alludes directly to homosexuality in her essay but, as one might say, plays lightly with the concept rather than confronting it head on.
The garden makes references to the classical world, the Renaissance and the French Revolution, and alludes to the second world war, the sea, fishing boats and landscape painting.
He alludes to intimacy with a glance over the shoulder or a gently withdrawn hand.
The novel alludes to the mixture of hypocrisy and collusion that characterised that period, and the banal sentimentality of its distractions flying saucers, soap operas, fatherland and fútbol (the infamous 1978 World Cup hosted and won by Argentina).
His painting, "Ways of Worldly Wisdom: Arminius's Battle" (1978), alludes to a tenth-century Germanic chieftain, Hermann, an idealised national symbol for later German writers, soldiers and philosophers.
The novel alludes to the hopes for redemption in the stories of the Jewish tradition: the journey into the promised land, the coming of the Messiah, the renewal of the covenant between God and his chosen people.
Tomislav Nikolic's nickname has nothing to do with his extreme nationalist past, but alludes to his stint as a manager of municipal cemeteries.
It is also a great work, albeit with a weak ending.The title alludes to the Old Testament (and God's) prophetic warning to Samuel about the rise of man-made kings; and the guiding forces that shape the book are Hitler, above all, and also Stalin.
