By his own admission, he evaded taxes as a Florida real-estate speculator. [VERB noun]
Mr Portillo denied he was evading the question. [VERB noun]
But there is a difference between lying deliberately to evade detection for wrongdoing or to trick someone into doing something.
Hitting a trained opponent that is moving to evade your punches is hard enough, but when they are also trying to hit you it can become almost impossible.
Under the pretence of lighting a candle, she evades him and disappears. [VERB noun]
Happiness, which had been so elusive in Henry's life, still evaded him. [VERB noun]
Why does success seem to evade some people whereas it attaches itself abundantly to others?
Do not persuade yourself that you can evade them, you cannot.
To evade a pursuer
To evade a question, to evade payment of a tax
This constant changing causes the virus to evade the immune system even if you taken shots and other precautions.
The heathen had a method, more truly their own, of evading the Christian miracles. — Richard Chenevix Trench.
Evading from perils. — Francis Bacon. Unarmed they might / Have easily, as spirits evaded swift / By quick contraction or remove. — John Milton.
The ministers of God are not to evade and take refuge any of these . . . ways. — Robert South.
