Sentence examples for making an allusion from inspiring English sources

Is Dyer making an allusion to "Under the Volcano" here?

All I can say is: China -- nothing further," he said, making an allusion to modern global trade agreements.

My first thought was that Mr. Jacobs was making an allusion to global warming — hence the wrecked beach and the mash-up of fashion genres without seasons.

By making an allusion to the film Annie Hall, from which the image of Allen was taken, he intended to comment about tabloid scandal-mongering.

Wright, like so many of his contemporaries, makes an art which comes and goes, and which perhaps is therefore making an allusion to the passing nature of life, and the necessary impermanence of art.

The title, Not To Hit The Foot, is intentionally ironic by making an allusion to the fear that we all have about not reaching expected results".

Then he turned melancholy and made an allusion to his wife and children in the United States.

He made an allusion to the condemned biblical cities of Sodom and Gomorrah.

I'm doing that now . . . and hardly a class goes by when I don't make an allusion that prompts my students to stare at me as if I just dropped in from the Paleozoic era. . . .

Joking darkly about Mr. Bush with reporters late Monday, Mr. McCain made an allusion to the Wizard of Oz and said that Mr. Bush "is a combination of the Cowardly Lion, the Tin Man, and the Scarecrow".

For Shias, he made an allusion to Ashoura, appealing to the spirit of sacrifice shown by the earlier Hussein in his resistance to the tyrant Yazid.To make sure everyone gets the message, Shia clerics on Iraqi television have named America as the modern Yazid.