How to Use evasive in a Sentence

evasive

adjective
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  • They took evasive action to avoid capture.
  • She gave an evasive answer.
  • So an even more evasive form of XBB.1.5 could be showing up soon.
    — Jonathan Wolfe, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2023
  • Wilder will be more cautious, more evasive and smarter.
    — Anthony Stitt, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2021
  • That’s a very short amount of time to plan an evasive maneuver.
    — Eric MacK, Forbes, 15 July 2022
  • For a while, jabs in the arm were enough, but then came the vaccine-evasive Omicron variant late last year.
    — Grady McGregor, Fortune, 17 Sep. 2022
  • To do so is the real work—and pleasure—of reading this subtle and evasive book.
    — Sarah Chihaya, The Atlantic, 26 Sep. 2022
  • The problem with it may be simpler, more evasive of review.
    — Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 19 Nov. 2021
  • In order to avoid a collision, the U.S. craft was forced to take evasive action.
    — Fox News, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Neither was damaged and no sailors were hurt as a result of the evasive actions.
    — Matt Seyler, ABC News, 1 Dec. 2022
  • If your husband continues to be evasive, talk to a lawyer.
    — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 27 July 2022
  • To that end, there’s an evasive quality to the characters that sometimes gets the better of Tejera.
    — Vulture, 1 Aug. 2023
  • He has been slammed for his shaky demeanor and evasive responses.
    — Greg Braxton, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Given how health care works in the U.S., solutions will be evasive, imperfect, and hard to craft.
    — Simone Betchen, STAT, 21 Sep. 2022
  • One study, in fact, has shown that close to 30 percent of drivers involved in car crashes take no evasive measures at all.
    — Oliver Broudy, Men's Health, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Shea likes Beth, although the older woman appears cold and evasive.
    — Sun Sentinel, 19 Apr. 2022
  • That response was seen as evasive, and not just by Benedict’s longtime critics.
    — Paul Elie, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2022
  • The response struck even his defenders as awkward and evasive.
    — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2024
  • But thankfully the pilot of the private plane took evasive action, avoiding a crash.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 10 Oct. 2023
  • Police said one driver appeared to have crossed the center line of the road, causing a second driver to take evasive measures.
    — Laura Daniella Sepulveda, The Arizona Republic, 5 Feb. 2022
  • The Russian craft have repeatedly flown into the path of the drones, forcing them to take evasive action to avoid a collision.
    — Anders Hagstrom, Fox News, 9 July 2023
  • Askew opened the personal 6-0 scoring spree with an evasive spin and push-shot finish in the lane over Baylor forward Matthew Mayer.
    — Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 4 Mar. 2022
  • The films have always presented a more slick, evasive Bond than the often mundane spy in Ian Fleming’s novels.
    — Jo Livingstone, The New Republic, 7 Oct. 2021
  • Many of Judge Jackson’s responses have been evasive and unclear.
    — ABC News, 27 Mar. 2022
  • Environmental groups criticized the evasive answers from the head of the World Bank.
    — Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Simmons had been asking about her kids and getting evasive answers.
    — Amanda Lee Myers, USA TODAY, 19 June 2023
  • When asked about the social boycott, elders in Bilawar Kalan were not evasive or apologetic at all.
    — New York Times, 23 Dec. 2021
  • The first surgery was cancelled due to infection, the second surgery was more evasive and required a portion of his large intestine to be removed.
    — Amy Drew Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 30 Jan. 2023
  • Rogan had pressed him about how that might have changed his personality, but Jones was evasive.
    — Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2023
  • The bus driver had to take evasive maneuvers to avoid hitting the other vehicles.
    — Michael Williams, Dallas News, 27 Apr. 2023

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