Examples of 'elusive' in a sentence
Meaning of "elusive"
Elusive describes something that is difficult to find, catch, understand, or achieve. It is often used to refer to abstract concepts, elusive goals, or elusive creatures that are hard to capture or define
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- Evading capture, comprehension or remembrance.
- Difficult to make precise.
- Rarely seen.
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Viruses and diseases are elusive undocumented visitors.
The elusive cider has finally materialized.
Film noir is a very elusive thing to define.
The elusive woman from the poem.
The truth is so elusive like the wind.
The elusive band of terrorists finally in captivity.
The rare and elusive white cheddar.
An elusive bearded vulture known as the lammergeyer.
Know where the elusive beauties lie.
The answer to these questions remains elusive.
The most elusive quarry in our land.
But in too many places it remains elusive.
The most elusive creature in the sea.
Still durable peace remains as elusive as ever.
There is that elusive but satisfying smile.
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The ideal software remains somewhat elusive.
But he was always giving elusive answers to my questions.
I fear the fellow may prove elusive.
The species is elusive and poorly known.
Globalisation seems to be a massive and elusive threat.
The more elusive and sublime world.
The answer to that question remains elusive.
The figures are elusive and appear introspective.
The music is seductive in a similarly elusive way.
My course is as elusive as a shadow across the sky.
Nuclear arms control has proved elusive.
Using an elusive new technique known as empathy.
You are mysterious and elusive and complicated.
The goal of nuclear disarmament remains elusive.
One of the most elusive of them all.
A common international currency has remained elusive.
That our elusive adversary is back in town.
We were all trying to record that elusive bend.
Gender equality remains elusive but is a key requirement.
The mechanism by which cats purr is elusive.
They like her to be elusive and mysterious.
But capital in particular is mobile and elusive.
They fly all over elusive creatures.
I do not know when love became elusive.
Now moving on to the elusive center spread.
But the animal itself remains elusive.
He will lead us to our elusive little blue quarry.
This group has proven quite elusive.
I am the elusive marissa von bleicken.
Evidence of extraterrestrial existence remains as elusive as ever.
There is nothing more elusive than an obvious fact.
Reliable information for this weapon is elusive.
Happiness always feels elusive and ephemeral.
The pathophysiology of takotsubo cardiomyopathy remains elusive.
The existence becomes elusive each time.
