Sentence examples for the dodged from inspiring English sources
verb
To avoid by moving suddenly out of the way.
- He dodged traffic crossing the street.
The dodged bullets of the sixties and seventies found their target in 2000.
San Jose, bolstered by the continued saves and the dodged bullets began counterattacking and, almost like a movie script, tore apart the stunned Galaxy defense for three unanswered goals; two of those goals in stoppage time.
(Robert Lee Hotz wrote an excellent Wall Street Journal column in 2009 on the city's sea-level threat).] My guess is that the dodged hydrological bullet may work the other way, allowing city officials to punt the question.
CNET's Greg Sandoval reported earlier today that the company may have raised new funding (he used the "dodged a bullet" idiom, by the way).
Over the past four months UK Uncut has grown from a meeting in a pub to hundreds of high-street acts of protest against tax avoiders, highlighting the £25bn dodged in taxes every single year by some of the most wealthy individuals and profitable corporations.
Unfortunately, that may also be the generation that inherits all the problems being dodged today: the consequences of a greying society, banks burdened with debts, companies unrestructured and a public sector deep in deficit.
However, it should still pass (by a simple majority) in December, before the new, Democrat-controlled Congress takes over next year.Mr Bush is the second American president to visit Vietnam since the fall of Saigon and the second to have dodged fighting in the war.
From this moment, the teenage Grass was compromised: 'I had used my status as a child to play dumb and accepted his disappearance without a murmur and once more dodged the word "Why?" so that now as I peel the onion the silence pounds in my ears.' Grass controls his story through metaphor.
For days, the Trump administration has dodged questions about the role climate change may have played in strengthening the back-to-back storms. .
So here's what the two Eds need to do, and fast: one, make clear that the scale of dodged tax is a moral issue for them – that the hedge trimmer matters much less than the hedge fund manager.
Within months of opening, Blustein and the co-owner and head chef Brian Skinner, childhood friends and devoted vegetarians, have gracefully dodged the common pitfalls and stereotypes associated with meatless eaters, forging a hot spot for even the most carnivorous diners.
