How to Use allusion in a Sentence

allusion

noun

• She made allusion to her first marriage.
• The lyrics contain biblical allusions.
• As the disease spread across the globe, the battle allusions followed.
  — Yasmeen Serhan, The Atlantic, 31 Mar. 2020
• But that's not the only allusion to Miley’s past in the video.
  — Sara Delgado, Teen Vogue, 30 Nov. 2018
• The song starts off strong with an allusion to the king of pop, Michael Jackson.
  — Samantha Olson, Seventeen, 21 May 2021
• But beyond the allusion to chaos, the beer itself seems pretty great.
  — Sammy Nickalls, Esquire, 4 Feb. 2017
• The name, as legend has it, was an allusion to the club cars of Pullman trains.
  — Liza Weisstuch, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Oct. 2020
• The title was an allusion to the biblical tale of Adam and Eve and the tree of knowledge.
  — Timothy McLaughlin, The Atlantic, 6 Jan. 2023
• And there is an allusion to what’s coming: snowflakes at book’s end.
  — Susan Faust, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Oct. 2017
• Three different rallies so far this week, and not a word, not any allusion to it at all.
  — AJC.com, 17 Dec. 2016
• But how do these allusions to the Garden relate to a belief in magic?
  — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2023
• There are lots of literary echoes and allusions in the novel, but they don't do anything for the tired texture of the prose.
  — Tony Tanner, New York Times Book Review, 6 Apr. 1997
• In part this is a function of Sebald’s use of allusion and collage.
  — Ben Lerner, The New York Review of Books, 25 Feb. 2021
• The vague allusions to action are more delusion from a failing agency.
  — Daniela Altimari, courant.com, 11 Sep. 2019
• Guggenheim donned a crown rimmed with forks, an allusion to the uselessness of cutlery in a time of little food.
  — Valli Herman, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2023
• The sticks that protrude are enclosed in glass bell jars, a cheeky allusion to taxidermy displays.
  — Catherine Romano, WSJ, 26 Oct. 2018
• Music is always a gesture of hope, an allusion to peace.
  — Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2022
• Grail’s name is an allusion to that search, which many researchers compare to the quest for the Holy Grail.
  — Jonathan Wosen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Sep. 2020
• Grail’s name is an allusion to this search, which researchers have compared to the quest for the Holy Grail.
  — Mike Freeman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Apr. 2021
• The question is whether today’s crop of English majors will spot the allusion.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 9 Aug. 2018
• Same for all of those canonical allusions that seemed added mainly to inflate the artistic importance of the movie.
  — Lee Williams | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 4 Nov. 2019
• The company’s name is an allusion to that search, which many have compared to the quest for the Holy Grail.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Apr. 2021
• But its use of Christian allusions didn't sit right in some schools, either.
  — refinery29.com, 7 Mar. 2018
• At least one team has changed its name because of an unsavory allusion to a local problem.
  — New York Times, 30 July 2019
• This post-style pair gives the allusion of dangling earrings without dragging your lobes down.
  — Jennifer Aldrich, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Sep. 2021
• The passerby who begs a few rubles is dressed here in sinister military garb—an allusion to the current war?
  — Charles Isherwood, WSJ, 17 June 2022
• Many of the songs are studded with political allusions.
  — Chrissie Dickinson, chicagotribune.com, 17 May 2018
• For Anderson, the allusion to lynching wasn't just a metaphor.
  — John Blake, CNN, 17 Aug. 2019
• Again and again, his cinephile allusions collapse easy distinctions between high and low, trash and art.
  — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023
• In addition to the passionate embrace, there is a subtler allusion there, too: the man’s large hand melds with the arm of the boy.
  — New York Times, 13 Jan. 2021

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024