Sentence example with the word 'elusive'

elusive

baffling, elusory, evasive, fugitive, imponderable, indefinable, intangible, mysterious, shifty, slippery, tricky

Definition adj. difficult to describe

Last update: August 15, 2015


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The police are finding it difficult to catch the elusive bank robber.   [adjective]

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Since I am not very good at math, earning an “A” in geometry is an elusive goal for me.   [adjective]

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People turned their heads to look at her, and more than one lent an attentive ear to her utterances, hoping thereby to secure the elusive but ever-desired "tip."   [adjective]

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Omniscient Jove never used a monkey-wrench, never sought the elusive spark, never blew up a four-inch tire with a half-inch pump.   [adjective]

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The ancient historians all employed one and the same method to describe and seize the apparently elusivethe life of a people.   [adjective]

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That elusive scent of jasmine crept to his nostrils.   [Please select]

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Since then, he'd known nothing but war, been driven by nothing but revenge, fury, and the elusive glimmer of hope that he might one day feel as he had sitting with his mother and sisters on that hill above his rightful home.   [Please select]

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He thrust his hand into the box, clutched an elusive ball and drew it forth.   [Please select]

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And as the minutes passed this sense grew increasingly provocative, became too increasingly elusive.   [Please select]

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Till then she flitted to and fro, intangible as gossamer, elusive as the snow.   [Please select]

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Something, he felt, very close to us, and very elusive.   [Please select]

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