How To Use Dodging In A Sentence

I'd chase along the street nearest the river, dodging out side streets to the riverbank.
Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships. Ansel Adams
Swindon Council has called in the bailiffs to sort out motorists dodging parking fines.
He pulled him off of her and, dodging a few punches, landed a few jabs and then a roundhouse punch.
I love catching a glimpse of the unexpected flower growing through cracks in a sidewalk, or the furry and feathered critters dodging us humans in their quest for food and shelter.

Postal Service as it seeks congressional help in dodging much of a $5.5 billion payment due next Thursday into its retiree health benefit fund. Eye Opener: Obama's green czar leaving? Defense contractors regroup, Filipino flag flap
For years I have been dodging surfboards and sailboards, jumping up and down to signal my presence as they come bearing down on me, then diving out of their way at the last moment.
Everywhere I saw helicopters jukeing and jinking, ducking and dodging.
She moved through the crowd, dodging elbows, murmuring apologies, aware of a growing panic inside.
Every so often, one of the peones comes out from behind the barrera to taunt the bull, dodging agilely, all to see the character of the animal, and to draw him to different areas of the ring. There is no such thing as a bullfight
So we spent the best part of 2 hours running around the house screaming like crazed banshees, dodging (in my case not very successfully) my deranged older brother.
Vehicles merely gain speed near a zebra crossing for the fear of catching a signal and the pedestrians are left dodging speeding vehicles to get to the other end of the road.
We walked down the tar road that was shimmering in the heat, dodging the occasional car sweeping past, until we came to the bridge.
I imagined some guy in the back of a white van bobbing is gun around in frustration cursing those damn mormons and their matrix-like bullet dodging abilities. How the DC snipers hacked an ex-police car to make a killing machine - Boing Boing
She also previously appeared in court for fare-dodging on a tram. Times, Sunday Times
After some difficulty in "dodging" the sentries, which General Simpson, with his most unpopular and unnecessary policy, insists on placing everywhere, we reached the Fourth Division just as the Guards were marching down to their places in reserve. Journal Kept During The Russian War: From The Departure Of The Army From England In April 1854, To The Fall Of Sebastopol
But there are sites and blogs that entertain while dodging any overt political allegiance. Times, Sunday Times
Nicola found herself dodging death as she made her way down Dooncarton Mountain with the landslides tumbling down either side of her.
But she surprises me with her verve, dodging the car at the last second with a little roll that reverses into like a forward summersault, coming down way hard on my unmentionables. The Pathetic Phallacy
As if that weren't enough, we're slaloming down a field of ice-floes, dodging bergs as big as apartment blocks.
If you don't give an answer to a loaded question but instead protest its loading, sometimes you are accused of dodging it.
To lose 240million a year to fare-dodging is a lot of money. The Sun
Do you REALLY think the terrorists want to have to sculk around dodging bullets forever? Think Progress » Tony Snow’s Challenge: ‘Please Show Me’ Where The NIE Says ‘We’re Not Winning’
She has now become nimble and agile with the experience of dodging through traffic, avoiding moving vehicles, where she taps pleadingly at windows.
He sensed the days of dodging his own true-life romance were drawing to a close, if the door had not already been slammed shut. MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
He understands how to employ our military more effectively - despite dodging the draft during the Vietnam War.
I saw her happily dodging trees in her wide snowplow as the instructor coached gently from behind: ‘Bend your knees, Emma.’
Ever since he's been dodging bricks, stones, and rotten tomatoes from the unco guid. A Little Rock'n'Roll with our Elevenses
Interpretive techniques such as dodging and burning and adjusting contrast and saturation, have been used since the earliest days of photography.
On a rare weekday at home, I wander down to the market on my local high street, dodging young women with pushchairs and pensioners with canvas shopping-trolleys, and a shiver goes down my spine.
Dodging them, Frenzill slipped inside the gaol's back entrance and fumbled the cresset from the wall. Father Swarat
It is about a man who goes home and is utterly lost in the grocery store----but completely comfortable dodging enemy fire and defusing bombs in brutal, hostile conditions.
Search the maze dodging the robots and auto-firing laser guns.
After skillfully ducking and dodging the two shoes hurled at his face at his final press conference in Baghdad, our dodger and ducker-in-chief calmly reported the size of the famous shoes. David's Flying Shoes v. Goliath's Bloody Ruse
Remote working sounds idyllic: lolling around in your pyjamas and dodging the tea run. Times, Sunday Times
Full kit riders going too fast around blind corners, dodging the ever irksome rollerblader, children's trail-a-bikes. Single Sided and Fully Enclosed: The Inaccessibility of "Bike Culture"
On these missions, the Crusaders carried little or no munitions to increase their maneuverability and airspeed in dodging the SAMs that were released. Wallace, MIchael W.
No, we're here in this God-awful sun, dodging horseflies and getting chopped grass stuck all over us and sweating so much that we'll never get dried off and clean before the party, that's what we're doing!
There were grave Spaniards in long cloaks and feathered beavers; jolly merchants and artisans in short linen jackets, each with his tabatiere, the wives with bits of finery, the children laughing and shouting and dodging in and out between fathers and mothers beaming with quiet pride and contentment; swarthy boat-men with their worsted belts, gaudy negresses chanting in the soft patois, and here and there a blanketed Indian. The Crossing
Nor, when that same candidate ran was there any demand for proof that he actually served in the National Guard and no verdict of any kind rendered when it was clear that there was no evidence of any kind that Bush was anything other than a draft dodging dopehead, ne'er do well loser all his life. Edwards Campaign: Times Refused To Talk To Beneficiaries Of His Anti-Poverty Programs
The group hovered along the surface, flying over the lava fields and dodging the rare incoming of a lava bomb.
George Bush and John Kerry are happy to trade barbs about draft dodging and flip-flopping.
The boy hurried after him, dodging through the crowd of stevedores and sailors swarming the dock.
Here is the task for "big hearts and big brains," and it is a task that big brains have heretofore been much more agile in dodging than courageous in meeting. Public Ownership of Public Utilities
He was facing a bill for more than 100,000 after dodging income tax for decades. The Sun
It is about a man who goes home and is utterly lost in the grocery store----but completely comfortable dodging enemy fire and defusing bombs in brutal, hostile conditions.
No respite is given to the women constantly dodging detection and caught up at every turn by gender-specific restrictions.
I crossed the highway, dodging the traffic.
They also plan on dodging any more run-ins with the fuzz.
Many times, in secret, dodging from the men guarding the cornfields, I went with my grandmother, also at dawn, armed with rakes, sacking and cord, to glean the stubble, the loose straw that would then serve as litter for the livestock. José Saramago - Nobel Lecture
Remote working sounds idyllic: lolling around in your pyjamas and dodging the tea run. Times, Sunday Times
His dodging of tackles, chasing the ball less etc.
He has been dodging deportation for 6½ years. The Sun
He was facing a bill for more than 100,000 after dodging income tax for decades. The Sun
This time, he wasn't quick enough in dodging any attacks.
Right now that sounds a fair bit more appealing than dodging wildebeest. Times, Sunday Times
Well, dodging the hunter is the most important now! Jork goes, but soon stops.
I only know he has a better chance at being president that the hard drinking, gun shootin 'bullet dodging "homegirl" from Winnetka! Obama Pokes Fun At Hillary's Shot-And-A-Beer
Nowadays, there has been tax dodging by some companies run by foreign capital in our nation, and the number of that has been growing sharply. The consequence of that is very serious.
The puss used up one of her nine lives when she was spotted dodging the Ryanair Boeing 737 as it arrived from Dublin.
He boasts of dodging military service by feigning illness.
He ran across the road, dodging the traffic.
Dodging past the pedestrians with his gun drawn, Philip bypassed a bike shop and stopped, leaning on his knees for leverage.
In between dodging the baddies, Lafcadia helps an old blind woman cross a river and meets up with a young thief, whose main line of defense is a pot of chili pepper - the original pepper spray.
Everybody's got to be somewhere, and there I was in Vancouver at the age of five, dodging the draft into the War in Vietnam.
People caught dodging the licence fee, which is £116 a year, can be fined up to £1, 000, plus court costs.
But it sounded far more enticing than dodging a runaway boxcar in a lonely freight yard at 2 a.m.
You get a load of yuppie petrolheads in fast cars [who] career across a series of foreign countries, dodging indigenous police forces and smashing speed limits.
All day she walked from ship to ship upon the cluttered decks in the roar of the tank engines, dodging the men bowsing down securing tackles, chi-hiking sometimes with anxious soldiers uttering strained pleasantries. The Breaking Wave
On this day it was a question of dodging the rain that at times hammered down, and then of course out came the Sun, and it was like playing in a sauna.
He ran across the courtyard, dodging a storm of bullets.
With a tiger-like roar of fury, the stoker charged, and on the engineer's dodging conjecturally aside, fell heavily over the parish boundary-stone. Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers
While lots of children his age go to school, Rizki is on the street in the hot sun or rain seven days a week hawking papers while dodging the traffic.
Tracy has joined the ranks of those dodging tax; she goes full-time from September.
He has been dodging deportation for 6½ years. The Sun
Now successfully dodging bullets in Fallujah is not the only path to manly courage, and some days going up against Rahm & the whole dizzy WH crew might do it, but it really, desperately needed to be done by someone. Go, Howie, Go! (Blog for Democracy)
He went running off after the boy down the tunnel, dodging people and cannoning into others.
Fascinating, to follow - once more - the obfuscation and fact-dodging that people like him and his acolytes engage in.
Coastguards warned people to stop ‘wave-dodging’ on exposed seashores along the Yorkshire coast as winds whipped up mountainous seas.
If "that" didn't refer to "violating the laws of nature," you were being disingenuous in dodging the question. The Memory Hole
Tackling directors' pay, tax-dodging tax havens, the soft cartelism of class and education ... there are sound ideas here. Times, Sunday Times
But let him once be fairly cornered, convinced that dodging the question was out of the question, then would he turn himself square about, and looking you full in the face, out with the naked truth as bluntly as if he had "chawed" it into a hard wad and shot it at you from his pop-gun. Burl
After she'd debriefed him, she had gone to Noelle's classroom, dodging the hall monitors on the way.
Officers have discovered the hidden population consists largely of asylum seekers, many of whom are concealed from the poll by tax-dodging landlords.
He has been dodging deportation for 6½ years. The Sun
Elisa swung a punch at his shoulder, and he didn't bother dodging.
The ticket inspectors from the waterbus tracked her down and ensured she also paid €77.50 for dodging the fare. Times, Sunday Times
IKENNE, Nigeria — After driving two hours — skirting truck-size potholes, fording a flooded town and dodging a body — Pieter Swanepoel arrives at a dilapidated farm about 50 miles from Lagos, Nigeria. Catering to New Tastes as Incomes Climb
Reivin was dodging using very little effort, as if this was all far too easy for him.
However, the very old birds that have survived a season dodging the guns are not for roasting - they are for the stew-pot or stockpot, where they will tenderise and impart loads of flavour with long, slow cooking.
They fight him with the help of high-tech gizmos and near-superhuman feats: surviving car chases, leaping from a second-story window, dodging a syringe full of tetrodotoxin, “over a thousand times more lethal than cyanide.” 2010 February 22 « One-Minute Book Reviews
But there are sites and blogs that entertain while dodging any overt political allegiance. Times, Sunday Times
The end game of your little libertarian phantasy is a few have the resources for 100 combat troops when they want to go buy some bok choy, and the rest of us are dodging bombs, thieves and bullets. rmm. State Sen. Ed Murray: “Sales Tax Very Much in Play.” « PubliCola
A random lightning strike traps the trio in an old Icelandic mine, which just happens to have a conveniently-placed rollercoaster; pretty soon they’re staring glurgy-eyed at Blue Velvet-style bluebirds, flying kites, hitting piranahs with baseball bats, dodging attacks from Nessie and running from dinosaurs. Journey to the Center of the Earth « Skid Roche
Perhaps through such long experience, the hotel somehow manages to both reek of exclusivity and wealth while dodging gaudy ostentation.
Dodging between the vinyl booths is Luis Valencia, busily attacking a pile of crumbs with his 3M carpet sweeper.
Siabra turned obediently to leave and Diego slapped his horn against her haunches, dodging her buck as he sent her off in a gallop toward the main road.
There's nothing - absolutely nothing - that the pugnacious little Dubliner likes better than standing centre stage, dodging the brickbats.
He remains in nimble form when it comes to dodging some questions, though.
Similarly, a print area might require dodging during the initial exposure to keep it from reversing when solarized.
Tax-dodging tycoons have also angered regular folk who are already fed up with rampant graft that has put many a government functionary behind the wheel of a fancy car.
The sky was a dull gray color - vastly different than the solid black he created by dodging and burning the final print in the darkroom.
Now, this is what you call dodging a financial bullet. Staff Blogs
God, he's fast for an old guy, she mused, dodging a roundhouse kick from her sensei.
The camo clad marine dove on the ground, dodging my shot.
The shot rang out loudly, and Wer snapped back dodging the bullet.
I could feel the urge for his neck in my hands for one brief instant before sanity clamped down, and I considered what to do while dodging his reechy kisses. A Letter of Mary
Consonants regularly occur in strings or clusters without intervening vowels: initially, as in stain and strip, finally, as in fetch and twelfth, medially, as in dodging.
We'd nip at the opposing forces heels, dodging their boots and fists, not to mention brickbats and clubs.
I uncoiled my legs, and leapt to my feet, at the same time as I jumped forward, dodging further shots as they hit behind me.
Whether you're a law abiding citizen or a tax dodging criminal, there's something eerily omniscient about the taxman.
We walked over to Joshua's window, dodging strains of TP all over the crisp grass.
Changing the light exposure timing until it looked just the way you wanted it to, dodging and burning to correct for things you couldn't solve with shutter speed and aperture when you'd taken the frame, timing the image in the bath to get all of the detail without overdeveloping... Making Light: Open thread 135
The Minister was her usual evasive self, skilfully dodging reporters' questions about her possible resignation.
This includes dodging and burning in selected areas within a photograph so long as it does not change the content of the image.
We turned another corner, narrowly dodging another bullet, running down the alleyway.
After that, I snapped back to reality and started dodging his punches and swings.
He was facing a bill for more than 100,000 after dodging income tax for decades. The Sun
Perhaps, if you feel that the government is getting greedy, you spend a little time dodging it via blackmarket channels -- why not? Over-worked or Over-taxed?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Are you dodging the social life question?
Agents will also examine more returns of high-income taxpayers in search of what they call abusive shelters, or transactions with no real economic purpose other than dodging taxes. November 2005
I saw her happily dodging trees in her wide snowplow as the instructor coached gently from behind: ‘Bend your knees, Emma.’
Grant is on his own in "North by Northwest" (1959), dodging a killer cropduster in one of the most celebrated sequences in film history. Feeling Lucky at the Movies
He could almost tell what it was to be a bird, a nightbug, a butterfly, twirling and swirling, dancing upon the high currents, dodging limbs and weaving through flowers, flittering and fluttering ever so high, unimaginably high.
Also on Wednesday, April 9, 2003, according to ufologist Jose Escamilla, a cylindrical UFO was seen dodging American anti-aircraft bursts while flying over Baghdad.
She threw herself to the floor, just barely dodging a bullet that was aimed for her head.
It doesn't adhere - and barely refers - to any codified technique, thus dodging the trap of arty mannerism.
I could see furtive wolf shapes dodging in and out of the shadows, eyes shining.
Although kingfishers, bee eaters, storks, dragonflies, mosquitoes and ants are all part of his photographic repertoire, the wary hoopoe has been dodging his lens for years.
After the wreck, the driver decides to try and make it home, dodging merging headlights like schools of blonde fractioning into failed deliveries and distances (D) tantamount with words like dog track or jalopy — all traveling at a pace of 35 miles per hour through rain. Probability
It is absolutely reprehensible for lobstermen to usurp our right to enjoy boating without dodging hazards to navigation.
With quickness and agility, the boy went under the belly of the horse, dodging big hooves and the swishing head of the beast.
After the wreck, the driver decides to try and make it home, dodging merging headlights like schools of blonde fractioning into failed deliveries and distances (D) tantamount with words likedog trackorjalopy — all traveling at a pace of 35 miles per hour through rain. Probability
His failure to address that question leaves him open to the charge of dodging an important issue.
The pilot announced as the ship began dodging an unseen enemy.
But there are sites and blogs that entertain while dodging any overt political allegiance. Times, Sunday Times
A game of tag is a great way to get children to practice both running and dodging.
Young as I was, I had learned that a constable's acts, of whatever apparent character, are prompted by the most reprehensible motives, and I avoided him by dodging into the oilery by a side door which happened to stand ajar. The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales
She ran out of the shroud of dust and towards the helicopters while dodging the rain of bullets that came behind.
Or possibly, after the 9/11 attack, Gore would've sent a crack team of FBI agents to Afghanistan (probably headed by Hillary since she's experienced in dodging sniper fire on landing) to arrest al Qaida. The Truth Revealed!
The fright with which Mr. Drim had retreated, gained no proselyte to his opinion; Mr. Girt, the perfumer, asserted, significantly, they were only idle travellers, of light character; and Mr. Firl, when in dodging them, he saw they went into a bathing room, offered to double his wager that it was to make some assortment of their spoil. Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
Although kingfishers, bee eaters, storks, dragonflies, mosquitoes and ants are all part of his photographic repertoire, the wary hoopoe has been dodging his lens for years.
At one point in 1999, nearly 70,000 people were suing the police over being strip-searched for minor offences like fare-dodging.
In between dodging the baddies, Lafcadia helps an old blind woman cross a river and meets up with a young thief, whose main line of defense is a pot of chili pepper - the original pepper spray.
After scraping enough dough to get a tube in rush hour traffic, lugging bags up Brixton Hill, dodging people, cars, puke and rubbish to my flat, by the time I got into my room I was beat, but strangely energised.
Perhaps through such long experience, the hotel somehow manages to both reek of exclusivity and wealth while dodging gaudy ostentation.
So if you are using a fluorescent tube source, dodging and burning in the enlarged negative stage may be preferable.
She was directly opposite the Sheridan Building then, waiting for the traffic to thin before she crossed, though other people were risking the passage, darting and halting and dodging parlously. The Turmoil
I managed to spit out a stream of the sanguine liquid before dodging just in time to miss her foot.
This was Ja Fallon at his best again, jinking and dodging and dicating the play, setting up attacks in waves.
We weaved back and forth across the road to avoid the largest of the potholes, dodging trucks and motorbikes and cows along the way.
Dodging bullets as they rained down through the streamers and piñatas, following the volley of shots that substituted bells.
Within two minutes, we were dodging cowpats through the country park.
Even though I've been dodging the sun like a madwoman I've still got a bit of a tan.
All morning, I've been walking in Stanley Park, dodging the joggers and cyclists circling the waterfront with its tethered yachts and pleasure boats, while relistening to a selection from Costello's 33 albums on a loop through my headphones. Elvis Costello: 'I've never liked the word maturity. It implies decay'
I remember my Maw Maw hanging the white sheets on the clothesline that was strung from a post near her back door out toward the edge of the lawn near the creek, and the game we'd make of dodging around them, and the sweet, sunny smell we'd breathe in from them at night, as if they'd absorbed our happiness. February 2008
Maybe they should have Gough out on the doorsteps as a pitchman, dodging the election canvassers to personally tout the club's wares.
The firm is also accused of dodging tax laws by paying workers cash in hand. The Sun
We headed for the first period AP English class we shared, dodging lost freshmen and overexcited seniors.
Spellbound they crouched in the black and smouldering ashes of the spinifex, mouths open and eyes staring, and then with one terrific yell away they ran, dodging and doubling until a somewhat bushy beefwood tree seemed to offer them means of escape. Spinifex and Sand
The zombies themselves are well-realised in the vein of George A Romero's classic monsters - as Pegg himself says, they're so shambolic and endearingly rubbish that you could spend an hour in a room just dodging one.
In the past 20 years, the number of cars, trucks, and buses dodging potholes on America's roadways has surged 36 percent, according to the Federal Highway Administration.
Nonetheless I was very tired when I woke up. dodging and running and feeling frightened.
Yes | No | Report from buckshot89 wrote 13 weeks 2 days ago i'm feelin yah ... i sit through my classics class, dodging the professor and posting on the site ... however, i started working at a new place and my hours have roughly doubled ontop of a full college schedule. ive already decided i'm skipping spanish for opening day of shotgun season:) +1 Good Comment? Buck Fever in the Classroom
Wage earners - whether on £6,000 or £320,000 p a - who work hard and obtain most of their income through PAYE are the people who are being "squeezed" I could think of another more anglo-saxon word by tax dodging. Taxation: Squeezing middle Britain | Editorial
He ran across the road, dodging the traffic.
The Michigan Democrat said tax authorities have "announced their intent to investigate tax dodging by persons with accounts at Liechtenstein's LGT Bank.
Your flankers will keep the foe from dodging your blows.
She ducked her head, dodging away and chittering again.
The masochistic duo soon discover why, as they find themselves dodging oncoming buses and trucks and try to avoid the edges of crumbling mountain roads. Times, Sunday Times
Dodging the scallies on Chapel Street, I eventually found the said venue tucked away on Bloom Street.
Even Malvergne, the pilot Eddy had caught so much heat for smuggling out, succeeded in steering the USS Dallas destroyer through a narrow channel from Port Lyautey off the Moroccan coast, dodging sandbars, sunken ships, and Vichy shore fire so seventy-five U.S. Army rangers could debark and seize the nearby airport. Wild Bill Donovan
The firm is also accused of dodging tax laws by paying workers cash in hand. The Sun
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Until this assignment, Corey has always been lucky in dodging the fatal bullet. The Lion's Game: Summary and book reviews of The Lion's Game by Nelson DeMille.
No it's not QUITE the same as dodging RPGs in Sadr City, but some real grit is required. Sound Politics: Steve Beren: From Socialism To The GOP
But then a year ago he could still call up the horror of the communal plunge at his earlier lodgings: the listening for other bathers, the dodging of shrouded ladies in "crimping" - pins, the cold wait on the landing, the reluctant descent into a blotchy tin bath, and the effort to identify one's soap and nail-brush among the promiscuous implements of ablution. Full Circle
We bicycled around old town dodging ruts and chuckholes and ignoring the stares from the locals and uniformed children getting out of school.
The Michigan Democrat said tax authorities have "announced their intent to investigate tax dodging by persons with accounts at Liechtenstein's LGT Bank.
The puss used up one of her nine lives when she was spotted dodging the Ryanair Boeing 737 as it arrived from Dublin.
However, the cunning female kept dodging them, taking temporary refuge in the grounds of Fermoy Soccer Club.
The firm is also accused of dodging tax laws by paying workers cash in hand. The Sun
He still faces four charges of dodging taxi fares of between eleven and 50 pounds.
Dodging this question is a way of avoiding the most important dilemma of film's ascendancy: can a popular form of entertainment also produce art?
Across the narrow ribbon of sand they flew, soaring over splintered driftwood and dodging ropy mounds of rockweed. Raven Speak
I spun around in wild alarm - both dodging the swipe and swinging my sword at him.
Farming's image looks like getting another damaging self-inflicted dent as a result of what the public perceive as wholesale tax dodging.
The alternative is to slog through the netherworld of campus politics, dodging rhetoric and corruption, lobbying and protesting and generally avoiding any reasoned discussion of the subject.

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