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Sentence count:185+5Posted:2017-01-11Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: evasivesubtleSimilar words: inclusiveexclusiveexclusivelyeffusiveobtrusiveintrusiveallusionillusionMeaning: [-uːsɪv]  adj. 1. difficult to describe 2. skillful at eluding capture 3. be difficult to detect or grasp by the mind. 
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61. The error messages will provide the most helpful clues for tracking elusive addresses.
62. The customers spilled all over the place; the electricity proved more elusive.
63. After three days of total frustration trying to catch the elusive fish, Trondur did not give the dorado a chance.
64. They pick through trash, poke through mail and tap into sophisticated computer databases in search of the elusive money trail.
65. It is hard to pin down something as elusive as a good school climate.
66. Or do you strain every sinew to go for that elusive target set on a small plateau?
67. Even more elusive have been facts about retrieving nuclear depth charges from lost helicopters.
68. Yet for the greater part Chopin's elusive essence emerged unscathed from so much inaccuracy and caprice.
69. Explanation of Britain's relative economic decline in the third quarter of the twentieth century remains elusive.
70. However, wealth is perhaps even more difficult to measure than income and reliable data prove elusive.
71. In all the years since Wilson proposed his theory of hot spots, plumes have remained elusive, practically imaginary structures.
72. Golden orioles in their nesting sites are elusive, impossible to see in the shimmering canopy of green-gold sunlit leaves.
73. This attractive model of urban development has proved remarkably elusive on the ground.
74. But all attempts to harness and control this most perplexing of natural phenomena have proven far more elusive.
75. He's at least five years younger than her and he has an ironic smile as elusive as hers is guileless.
76. What he had retained was the sense of an elusive mystery waiting in the heights for his return.
77. Mary Scott's work has the elusive quality of a childhood memory.
78. Still, few other fields are gifted with even this much purchase upon the elusive ideal of inter-personal truth.
79. Culture is the most important yet most elusive dimension of work.
80. Released shortly afterwards by the appositely elusive Water Brothers records[sentencedict .com], it should have passed into obscurity almost instantly.
81. Theresa could traipse all over, searching out that elusive brother of hers.
82. Though elusive, the goal of a new order is still valid.
83. Nevertheless, unequivocal evidence for deeper subduction of sediment has proved elusive, and other explanations are possible.
84. Victory for the Allies remained as elusive as ever, despite some 250,000 casualties.
85. Most students find that the first job does eventually come along, and even that elusive Equity card is attainable.
86. Each of these artists enjoys a firm reputation in this country but wider international success has been elusive.
87. He discussed at length the procedures of advanced research: tales of meticulous quests for elusive sources.
88. He was enormous fun and there was also that elusive and comforting reminder of Uncle Dimitri.
89. She was cleverer than either of them, more elusive, more fragile.
90. The religious outlook of the crusaders was more complex and more elusive than Pope Urban's.
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