Sentence example with the word 'elude'

elude

avoid, challenge, counteract, destroy, double, foil, go one better, outplay, ruin, skirt

Definition v. escape

Last update: May 4, 2016


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The enemy's fleet, which subsequently did not let a single boat pass, allows his entire army to elude it.   [verb]

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Henry (Revue des Etudes grecques, 1892), Tantalus is the sun: the fruits which elude his grasp are the stars suspended on the tree of heaven, which disappear at the rising of the sun; the water into which the sun descends without drinking, is the sea.   [verb]

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"That colt, at least, must die," muttered the scout, grasping at the mane of the nimble beast, which easily eluded his hand; "Uncas, your arrows."   [verb]

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I was going to offer him my parting salutation, but he turned his back upon me, saying: Once more you have escaped punishment, Athenian; but you cannot elude my vengeance.   [verb]

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"What do you know of law, except how to elude it."   [verb]

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[Pg 239] Wiley had escaped, and so secretly and cautiously as to elude and baffle all pursuit.   [verb]

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He saw clearly that even if he eluded discovery after the crime, he could never escape from the horror of his dead brother's presence.   [verb]

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The enemy's fleet, which subsequently did not let a single boat pass, allows his entire army to elude it.   [verb]

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He now hastened to elude the pursuit of the two surviving sisters, who, aroused from their slumbers, eagerly rushed to avenge the death of their sister.   [verb]

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Like Proteus, Thetis possessed the power of transforming herself into a variety of different shapes, and when wooed by Peleus she exerted this power in order to elude him.   [verb]

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I had dared and baffled his fury; I must elude his sorrow: I retired to the door.   [verb]

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