He's dodgingthe dishwashing again," suggested the Woodpecker.
Yes, thank you," replied Riddell, who at that moment was dodging vaguely in front of Miss Stringer as she stood solemnly waiting to get past him to the tea-table.
Parson got away safely to the tea-room, and the sight of him dodging about among the cakes and cups only added to the misery of the hapless Telson.
The marvellous life-preserving way he has of dodginginstant and vengeful annihilation, would excite my admiration, were not all my faculties required to soothe my nose after his repeated visits.
The time here was spent in clearing the trench of the ever-falling debris, dodging shells, and digging a jumping-off trench for the 41st Division, who were shortly to continue the advance.
The danger to the Younger Nations is of being drawn into this vortex of Militarism,' he went on, dodging the rear of the soldiery.
Beetle, when you've quite finished dodging the fresh air yonder, give me the meaning of tendens--and turn down your collar.
Now, I’ve been kicking around here for a couple of weeks, dodging the detectives, and incidentally reading the newspapers.
We had adopted the same tactics, firing and dodging to avoid the target made by the flash of our pistols, and watching and listening after the roar of the explosions.
Then, while the twisting, dodging invader was busiest with the tiny but relentless destroyers, Rodebush launched his heaviest weapon.
Through the red veil came stabbing tiny ball after brilliant ball, and only the most franticdodging saved the space-ship from destruction in those first few furious seconds.
Outfought at every turn, the now frantically dodging Nevian leaped away in headlong flight, only to be brought to a staggering, crashing halt as Cleveland nailed her with a tractor beam.
And Nerado, still attacking two of the powerful tanks with his every weapon, was still dodging those flashing balls charged with the quintessence of destruction.
At his word they dashed out into the hall and hurried along for minutes, dodging to right or left as the leader snapped out orders.
Out of the water and into the air the darting, dodging lifeboat flashed in safety; but in the air, supposedly free from menace, came disaster.
This ground has often proved convenient for the Supreme Court of the United States in dodging the question whether or not the Negroes must be protected in the rights guaranteed them by the Constitution.
Clay sprang to one side and ran toward him, dodging to the right and left, but Mendoza followed his movements carefully with his revolver.
He ran forward, dodging from side to side and firing as he ran.
I saw some of them dodging around in the bushes, and I went to find out what they were doing, and I walked into fifteen of them at your office.
The cleverest footwork could not always elude his tremendous rushes, the coolest ducking and dodging could not wholly escape that frantic shower of fists.
By the dodging movements of the light rays, Smith knew instantly what was coming.
But again we're dodgingand wasting your time and ours.
Bartley is ready to swear that you are not a crooked crook, whatever else it is that you're dodging for, and if we want to shut our eyes to the way you won't loosen up about yourself.
That was the smoothest trick that's been turned in any stage of thisdodging fight with the big fellows.
Entering into the fun of the thing, the man obeyed, and soon was dodging about after the winged swan in fine style, getting gradually nearer to the rock wall, against which the water washed as he did so.
Instantly there arose the most fearful hubbub, and we four got back to back, Alphonse dodging frantically round our little circle in his attempts to take shelter under our legs.
There is another bad patch about a mile and a-half from Hooper's, so if you have to go dodging your way into Marshall, a Liberian settlement, great caution and good luck is useful.
One, the same who had washed in my cup, was gray and old, and wise from much dodging of enemies.
But he was suspicious of the big object, or perhaps he smelled the man too and was afraid, for after much dodgingin and out he disappeared altogether.
Now a government snag-boat may be defined as a boat maintained by the government for the sole purpose of sailing the river and dodging snags.
There could be nothing more eerie than a night of drifting on the Missouri, with a ghastly moon dodging in and out among the clouds.
This would be far more exciting than dodging ice-floes and freezing one's toes.
You will ask, why all these subterfuges, this dodging in and out?
The hut looked like a surgery, and Donald and Bimbo got mixed up in the most laughable way in dodging about to wait on her.
I scouted ahead, dodging from tree to tree along the edge of the mere, in order to keep out of view of anyone moving on the road.
It's the most diverting indoor or outdoor sport I've ever indulged in--dodging eruptions.
But the first rise brought down a new supply of snags to lodge in the channel of the falling river, and pilots set to dodging them, just as they had done before the pulling began.
Dodging this way and that, sliding over a wide expanse of ice, Johnny at last eluded his pursuers in the wildly tumbled ice piles of the sea.
Five minutes more of dodging found her far from the shouting mob, that by this time was as hopelessly lost as dogs in a bramble patch.
We entered by the north passage (Sunday, September 1st), dodging among shoals.
That appears to me to be a good way of dodging trouble,” Ben acknowledged.
For some minutes his flashlight was seendodging in and out of the water-worn caverns, and then it disappeared entirely.
At this time there were not more than perhaps twenty of the enemy to be seen, and these were doing their best to escape, crawling and creeping, dodging towards those confounded huts.
So I shook my head at Dobson, and determined to keep the mast unless things became worse, and we hung on, dodging the waves and the block on that main sheet.
I waited till the dhow was steady for a moment, worked my way along the weather gunwale, dodging those balks of timber which were being washed about the deck, until I was right in the middle of them.
This little creature, like the mouse, ran hither and thither, dodging and twisting.
Pat, pat went his heavy paws, but the mouse ran this way and that, dodging and squeaking, and several times he missed, although by this time he was quite expert with his paws.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dodging" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
