Sentence examples for as a dodge from inspiring English sources

Westwood went on to shoot a five-under-par 67, the best round of any golfer starting after noon, and made no excuses, using neither the tight calf muscle he was nursing nor the wind that was blowing as a dodge for distance from the lead.

They think Rubin uses it as a dodge for playing highly political games.

Officially, however, Israel dismissed the cease-fire as a dodge to safeguard terrorists.

As a dodge, though, it falls apart with the sort of questions to which people expect a simple answer.

Cherubic and deceptively guileless, she used "humour as a dodge, intimacy as a smoke screen", Ms Salomon notes.

A ploy is more underhanded than a maneuver and not as playful or artful as a dodge.

A deposition isn't a breezy exchange among friends on "Hockey Night in Canada". During a deposition, a clever dodge is heard as a clever dodge, and it makes an observer wonder: Why the cleverness?

That has always struck me as a bit of a dodge.

Mike Herald, a lobbyist for the Western Center on Law and Poverty, described the governor's comments as "a bit of a dodge," noting that welfare payments have not been restored to pre-recession levels.

I had dreams of leaving at 18 to dodge bullets as a reporter in the desert.

Blitzer clearly regarded these efforts as a shameful dodge.