Sentence examples for evasive reply from inspiring English sources

On the morning of Bosworth (August 22), when Richard summoned Stanley to join him, he received an evasive reply and thereupon ordered Lord Strange to be executed, although his order was neglected and Strange escaped.

It seemed to be from the laborer that I got the least evasive reply I'd heard to my overused hypothetical about what could be said if the bombers were Muslims.

Everyone remembers Diane Sawyer — by then at ABC — doing headstands with Elián González and asking Marla Maples, in reference to Donald Trump, "Was it the best sex you ever had?" No one remembers Elián's musings on world affairs or Maples' evasive reply.

Requests for the cession of Colombo met with evasive replies.

These aren't responses to readers' questions, but automatic, evasive replies.

She sends Brangäne to summon Tristan, who sends back courtly, evasive replies.

This is a pretty impressive start, and if you see the man known to his fans as "T-Paw" in a Republican debate this year, I want you to remember that he is the one who eats breakfast with his wife and two daughters, and that the meal does not consist of grunts, snorts and evasive replies to questions about finished homework.

He resented the way women primped themselves before coming on the show, so they all looked alike and he could not tell the black pudding stringers from the knitting needle knobbers; and he disliked the certificate challengers were given to say they had beaten the panel, thinking it encouraged evasive replies to questions.

It is not known how common evasive replies are or how often editors assess whether authors have addressed criticisms appropriately and honestly and ask for changes when this is not the case.

On each of these the well-prepared prime minister had either a sharp reply or an evasive response to nullify the attack.

Davis' evasive response: "no comment".