Sentence examples for dodge from inspiring English sources
The word "dodge" is correct and usable in written English. It is most often used as a verb, meaning to avoid or evade something, as in, "She tried to dodge his question.".
After months of wrangling, the broadcasters finally agreed seven leaders would be allowed to take part, allowing David Cameron to dodge a head-to-head with Ed Miliband.
Here is a man who makes superhuman efforts to stick by his roots in Scotland and dodge tabloid celebrity, only to find that his every move is written up in the papers, usually accompanied by a punning headline derived from The Full Monty.
Many recipes dodge the issue by pointing you towards "packet instructions", but Stein suggests dunking them in boiling water for two minutes, while Luu goes for 5 10 minutes, "until soft".
Waze allows drivers to dodge traffic queues and FeeX offers savers the ability to cut down their investment fees.
But the tax may still be easy to dodge.
At half past four in the afternoon, a young Congolese man, already known to the police, had been arrested while trying to dodge the ticket barrier.
Matthew Dodge, the attorney who came to see Church, said the latticework through which he spoke to his client was smaller than a typical backyard fence.
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