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Sentence Examples The added handicap is that runners have to dodge the horse dung as they perambulate down the track. Certainly, a Minister cannot dodge a question by questioning the word of a member. I spend the rest of the morning doing postcards while others dodge raindrops to do some shopping. It tells us to stop buying rounds but offers little practical advice on how to dodge them. I hate musical chairs and dodge ball and any game that may single out one little kid for losing. Pursing his lips, he landed a heavy right hook on the boy's jaw before he could dodge, sending his head snapping back forcefully. They've been known to hassle people who choose alternative lifestyles and dodge taxes. The team will have to ford huge rivers, canyons and crevices and dodge landslides and rock falls. It took me a few minutes to dodge the drinking gamers and get to the ice bucket. Vargas has not had to ask his promoter for a loan or have to dodge the repo man from taking his Mercedes for non-payment. Mary is often forced to dodge missiles when she turns her back on her 31-member class to write on the board. Feodor moved quickly to the left to dodge the attack and quickly retaliated. This film follows the exploits of the Kelly Gang from 1878 to 1880 as they rob banks and dodge the long arm of the law. The next challenge was to dodge the shipping as it headed to and from Lands End just off the port beam. A plant will bend towards light and single-celled organisms will dodge obstacles. The real evil is the muddle, the tangle of evasions, words, intrigues by which he instinctively seeks to dodge reality. In fact reports say he even had to dodge the question of whether the Indians tanked the match! She pulled him up onto the seat behind her, swerving down over the main street to dodge through the rest of the traffic. Tax evaders continue to dodge the government in connivance with the taxmen. She's great, I love her to bits, but wow, she's so smart and you can't just dodge questions from her, she doesn't let up. Show More Sentences I can almost feel the adrenaline rising inside of me as I held a dodge ball or a baseball bat in my hand. Once he reached the wounded youth, he was forced to dodge a punch thrown randomly in his direction. The striker had spent most of his evening failing to dodge the offside flag. In York it really is a bind having to dodge those disabled drivers trying to have as good a quality of life as those lucky able-bodied shoppers. The sharpies who run these corporations found loopholes in our laws that allow them to dodge paying the taxes they rightfully owe. She had to dodge three tricycles, a bike, and about five variations of blowup balls just to get to his front porch. They have decided to dodge responsibility for the company by turning its management over to states and private entities. Buttons on the cane's handle vibrate gently to warn a user to dodge low ceilings and sidestep objects blocking their path. She began to parry and dodge their blazing fast attacks, but she was clearly outmatched and succumbed to their slashes and blows. One way to dodge an untimely demise is to gather information about potential predators in advance of an attack. Add to that you have the tax dodge of offshore accounts and you have a rather sordid picture. He must dodge the proctors, with their attendant evil the bulldogs, on their nightly prowl round the streets of Cambridge. The best way to dodge pressing and challenging issues is to get the people fixated on non-issues. I left the rest of my shopping and ran for the car, knocking over a display of biscuits in my haste to dodge people and escape. At least there I don't have to dodge overgrown thorn bushes and stinging nettles. Stay on the defensive, dodge constantly, and look for the other guy to make mistakes. He was able to dodge, but only partially, and the blow caught him on the outside of his rib cage. I smile and step over their toys, or dodge their plastic balls as they play catch. Before I could dodge him he reached out and grabbed me, pulling me off my feet and hefting me up over his shoulder. He has displayed good mobility in the pocket but also had some overthrows while trying to dodge pressure. Show More Sentences It's quite a physical game as you run and dive to dodge paintballs, crawl through bushes and climb into forts. While inversely charged subatomic particles were a lot harder to dodge than shotgun pellets, they still were painful to get hit by. If I manage to dodge it, it will still flatten the grass and leave it's mark. Mr Gawthorpe, whose family have lived in York since 1646, used to try to dodge his uncle's eagle eye during their regular park escapades. He was shirtless, exceedingly pale, a quivering tendril of a man trying to dodge a patch of sun that persisted in dappling his face. Pensioners who have to dodge dual-carriage way traffic to catch a bus are dicing with death, a county councillor has claimed. Aaron jumped up and slashed down, forcing the terrorist to dodge to the left. Those are charges he says he has no intention of answering in the war crimes court, if he can dodge it. From what I understand there are a whole host of possibilities where they could be used to catch people who dodge their road tax or drop litter. This does take time, and if the end result wasn't quite what you wanted, then it was back to the enlarger to burn and dodge again. Employers who attempt this dodge could be held liable for back payments of employment taxes, plus penalties and interest. He thinks that being in college is a great dodge to avoid work, so he throws all the tests. The effect has been to encourage the well-off to take out plans for children as a tax dodge. They present this response as a matter of conviction rather than an artful dodge. What he's doing here is a bit of a dodge, and that's only encouraging the press to go after him again. At the time, asbestos victims and unions warned it was a dodge to try and avoid escalating liabilities. If this sounds like a dodge by those afraid of accountability, why the suspicion among successful districts? Without the confession of faith we are bound to rationalize our actions, excuse our sins, and dodge the law's accusation. A guard shot at me, but with a quick dodge using my newly-acquired agility, I managed to avoid the bullet. Bell was also a sycophant, a Yes man, who could shift his political stance in a heartbeat, talk in circles and dodge any important decision making. Show More Sentences If you're outside of Britain, just be thankful that you're not forced under penalty of law to finance this deeply troubled organisation's efforts to dodge reality. He loves this verbal jousting as a dodge for his academic laziness. In theory, then, Mr. Secretary, can you address the corporate tax dodge? They can dodge or prevaricate or just hang up when dealing with a voice on the phone. She rushed in, preparing to make a quick dodge into the kitchen to grab another drink and then get back out, but froze on the spot two steps into the house. He doesn't hide behind the BBC anchorman mask to dodge the question. They are just happily getting on with their own lives and doing their best to dodge being bothered by all the busybodies and meddlers of the world. What enables this war-friendly philosophy is the fact that there is no military draft to dodge. Pedestrians dodge streams of reddish liquid in the streets, said to be pollution from tanneries. The latter is the insidious inflation dodge, a piece of legerdemain that governments have been using over centuries to take bigger and bigger bites of your property. The use of the spinning was to dodge the ricochets of Richard's blasts. Speeding motorists on West Yorkshire roads are dicing with death by driving on the wrong side of the road in an attempt to dodge speed cameras instead of slowing down. They furrow their concerned brows and squint gravely towards the cameras in their field camo but all you hear is hedge and evade and dodge and divert and equivocate. If he made a sudden move, Ashley reckoned she might dodge him and escape. I watched the fighter fend off or dodge the attack of every solo fighter. How the trio dodge him, with timely help from the professor and the magical map of the prison castle is the rest of the story, which is filled with surprise twists and turns. The competitors will sail west to east, through the doldrums, round three capes, and will have to dodge icebergs in the gale-ridden Southern Ocean. She began to parry and dodge their blazing fast attacks, but she was clearly outmatched and succumbed to their slashes and blows and was being pushed back. But I think her chances of meeting a good guy are diminishing because dating or trying to dodge these schmoes is draining all her time and emotional energy. Now, armed with the SEC's decision that the accounting dodge had a material impact for investors, those suits may require a bigger payout to go away. Show More Sentences The wind forced the players to step back several times from the service line and dodge paper and plastic debris blowing onto the court from the stands. But employees dodge cars when they haul trash bins along a service road. Only if no attempt is made to collect my fare will I dodge payment. Some acts dodge the question entirely by devoting albums to song-based tracks or downtempo experimentation, others simply compile their vinyl sides and remixes. Even as I tried to dodge thunder exploded in my face, burning pain and another hammer and dirt and dust was choking me while I gasped for a breath that wouldn't come. He was able to dodge her long enough to make his way to the edge of the forest and darted into the trees, hiding behind one large enough to shield him from view. The notion of diversity is simply an ideological dodge to conceal the fact that selection is being reintroduced to favour some at the expense of others. I do not think it is appropriate for a Minister to answer a question in the House in a way that attempts to dodge full responsibility for this appalling breach. Desperately keeping himself in the air, Cecil jinked around to dodge the other shockwaves that Ralph threw out at him while he recovered from the first blow. She doesn't seem to have twigged that if I've been sailing since I was six, mostly in a Wayfarer, I've had to dodge quite a few booms and guillotine-like kicking straps. Better on this occasion to kiss the rod than try to dodge the issue. The ground explodes and for us, the last troops left to finish out the war, we dodge the deliveries but understand the message. Either Uber will continue to dodge its detractors, or customers will eventually find its public reputation unpalatable. The same question recurs on every trip, and we never dodge it. Pressing the dodge button at the right time causes her to temporarily burst into an invincible flock of crows. Not long after dodge made this connection Around the World in 80 Days began playing at a nearby cinema in Paris. Combat is largely formulaic, with one button to punch and kick and another to dodge, but it's fast enough to feel satisfying. Tom Morgan, a spokesman for the Met Office, warned that the happy couple may have to dodge a few showers on theif big day. It revealed 84 per cent said guests had refilled used minibar bottles with water to dodge bills. We race each other to the waves, and splash in for a plodge, Me pal kicks watta up at me, but ah'm so quick ah dodge. Show More Sentences And if they dodge the placement or skive off they will lose three months of Jobseekers' allowance. Howard Kurtz on the semantic dodge that now lets them get away with it. Hamlet would requite his loves. Hewitt has soured on requitements. Hamlet would teach deep drinking. Hewitt is on the temperance dodge. The speartip rushed ahead in three rapid thrusts, but Luthien managed to parry and dodge, shifting his hips out of harm's way each time. But ground squirrels twist and dodge fast enough to have a decent chance of escape. Elaine Connor had to dodge puddles in her designer wellies after they began to leak through the soles. He lay next to her but frequently had to dodge speeding traffic in the road in Zhangzhou, China. The design includes a dodge ball arena, fitness area and a three-lane long trampoline which allows free jumping into a foam pit. Michael Roden and Paul Buchanan are believed to be lying low in ex-pat resorts in an attempt to dodge the long arm of the law. It was easy enough to dodge him, let him crash into the floorboards. Peltroc knew that his priority was the leader, not the hired muscle. The lead cruiser turned away to dodge the torpedo, while the second turned towards the submarine, attempting to ram. He is sideswiped by an emu, has to dodge a giant 'road train' and manages to tell jokes at the end of it all. But I wouldn't put it past him if he thought the North Korean nutjob could provide another excuse to dodge a TV grilling. Warren Buffett is an avowed avoider of high technology, but even the world's most famous investor cannot dodge Twitter. A few people dodge the Epstein-Barr virus when young, contracting it in adolescence or later as mononucleosis, a manageable disease. The contestants will try to dodge each other's blows and then get ready to counter. The programme included a marathon, a relay race, a basketball match, a six-a-side football match, a tug-of-war competition, dodge ball and sack race. Thanks to those with their wheely suitcases, navigating around Midtown Manhattan, especially at this time of year, is like playing a game of dodge 'em. She learns to rollerskate and to dodge through traffic in her fast Mini. Percy Shelley sometimes left home for short periods to dodge creditors. Show More Sentences Even more dangerous are irresponsible owners and those trying to dodge dangerous dogs laws by passing banned pit bull terriers off as Staffordshire terrier crosses. Not enjoying the tedium of his royal tour, Edward begins to dodge his official duties and falls for a charming young school teacher named Milli Milroy. Examples from Classical Literature How can we find a way that will enable us to dodge the mastodon and the plesiosaurus? He did try to dodge, but it hit him alongside of one eye, and knocked it out. Cope was now shunned by many, and the clogger contrived to dodge out of his sight whenever he passed. To conceal the importance of an enclosure, it is always a good dodge to send the covering letter under separate cover. When the fox appeared the deerhound made after him, and, in his attempt to dodge, reynard was bowled over on to his back. Man can dodge Nature as the scale insect cannot, but higher forms of life can, and man the most effectively of all. Then they may change their idea and be up to some dodge that we can't fathom. Mr. dodge, now is the time to show that your name and nature are not identical. I have seen a pickerel dodge as quickly at a sudden cloud-shadow as at the motion of a man wielding a fish pole. I shook his flipper weakly and tried the dodge of pretending to recognise him. Your society dodge has worked out, and I'll land you behind the bars for some time to come, my gay boy. What the deuce, then, was the fellow up to, that he should glower and dodge like a sleuth in a play? The sparrow might as well dodge its own shadow as to dodge the sharp-shinned hawk. But the shrewmouse had crouched to dodge the shadow of a passing bird, and he saw him no more. When the dodge had been discovered and the signaller settled the Scottish got their own back. But a plane pilot, stunting madly to dodge tracer bullets, has little time to spare for revolver work. He wished very much to deny the allegation, or at least to dodge the truth. Perhaps the brittle star has found this dodge useful in escaping from enemies. I can recommend the 'chinos' in this dodge, who are all adepts in all sorts of 'adulteration' schemes. Harry, he had to make humble excuses to dodge out of eyeshot a minute. Show More Sentences It would be but an ill example for the highest in rank to dodge, while the warriors were under fire. I dodge discrimination, and characterize them en masse by negations. That's my little dodge, boiling water for these dagos, if they come. The Wyandot endeavored to dodge it, but he was not quick enough. He could dodge through the brush as elusively as any man in Wyoming. A government may bamboozle it or dodge it, but it cannot openly oppose it. Before he could recover, I was safe out of the corner where he had me trapped, with all the deck to dodge about. My effort to dodge the tree and the pterodactyl at the same time resulted disastrously. Field went away rather impressed by the cunningness of the dodge. They figure they can dodge around where they know the trails and cut-offs. And they soon were gone, for when they understood Jerry's dodge they got out, calling him all sorts of bad names and blustering about his number and getting a summons. They'll go lovering around the house, and we shall have to dodge. Fortunately, Jake was in such a position that he could dodge it. Ichabod endeavored to dodge the horrible missile, but too late. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of dodge? Words that rhyme with dodge What is the past tense of dodge? What is the plural of dodge? What is the adverb for dodge? What is the adjective for dodge? What is the noun for dodge? Translations for dodge Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words dodecaphony dodecaphonic Dodecanese dodecahedrons dodecahedron dodds Dodge dodgeball dodged dodgem dodgems dodger 5-letter Words Starting With d do dod dodg