dodger
Example Sentences
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A "brazen" rail fare dodger has been fined more than £3,600 after failing to pay for a ticket on over a hundred journeys.
From BBC • Feb. 11, 2026
The sense of compromise in some of his orchestral recordings can be hard to shake off; one Times critic called him “the most artful dodger of major issues now before the public.”
From New York Times • Jan. 21, 2021
Moreover, as Risen documents, it established this son of a wealthy Civil War draft dodger as the embodiment of America’s emergence as a world power.
From Washington Post • Jul. 18, 2019
Arnold Hudson said that as a black man from South Los Angeles, he saw no future as a convicted draft dodger.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 29, 2018
When field marshals picked their men I was snapped up 'cause I was an ace dodger and tree climber.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
