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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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151. And hopefully taking that elusive win at the European Grand Prix, also.
152. In both wars, our enemy was only sometimes a conventional army; as often, if not more so, it was an elusive guerrilla force that was frequently indistinguishable from the civilian population.
153. The ever elusive Northwest Passage may be revealing itself in the Arctic.
154. Perhaps this elusive balance doesn't really exist. The greatest equilibrium might be found off-center.
155. An encounter with an elusive Canada Lynx is said to be a rare privelege.
156. Permeability remains an elusive parameter that is not directly measurable by geophysical methods.
157. The Tevatron accelerator, based underground at the US Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Batavia, Illinois, could also have its run extended to look for the elusive boson particle.
158. The monster again became an islet, rock, or reef , but a runaway reef , unfixed and elusive.
159. Indonesian president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono told participants without economic prosperity, peace will remain elusive.
160. The Observatory approached a sometimes elusive area of research and policy, extracted context-specific lessons and best practices, and made a long-standing problem look much more manageable.
161. Excessive worrying about an elusive public image was the order of the day.
162. Rhythm and body staggered in a dark space, sounds like an elusive chant from centuries ago.
163. Here too the infectious agent is elusive -- yet incredibly hardy.
164. Imaginative as this explanation is—and helpful in providing us with an excuse for being overweight—paleontological evidence for an aquatic phase of human existence has proven elusive.
165. What awaits them is a nation still mostly untrammelled by tourists, where, in the remoter parts, it's still quite possible to grasp that elusive feeling of discovery.
166. A shy and elusive fish, a Napoleon wrasse at Orona island is a good omen for the marine reserve.
167. Direct proof of the mechanism of adhesion is quite elusive.
168. The concrete jungle is an elusive mistress who will may call us to action at any given moment.
169. Called the Sambas stream toad or Bornean rainbow toad, the elusive amphibian was last spotted by European explorers in 1924.
170. If you like being an elusive, hard-to-get poke,[sentencedict.com/elusive.html] don't give it up too soon!
171. This team is in search of elusive bearded seals, an affectionate and playful seal species that spends nearly all its life either in the water or drifting on Artic ice floes .
172. His mandate is to help Chinese auto companies 'find that elusive 'C' factor, ' he says.
173. The pictured critter was not even the elusive American crocodile , Crocodylus acutus.
174. New technologies promise to solve this electronic puzzle; however, a completely fail-safe system remains elusive.
175. Sometimes the aesthetics of the image itself captivate. Sometimes the thrill is the magic of a dead-on fabulous technique for getting at elusive data.
176. Jabba tasked his two competing henchmen to capture the elusive stowaway.
177. She has no ambitions and ambition, only one can lose weight and wish is to find a true love for her, but these are still elusive, she had been live insipidity, let a person depressed.
178. Policies that are effective, efficient and politically palatable have proved elusive everywhere.
179. This is the first time such a large-scale three-dimensional picture of dark matter has been produced, and it will allow cosmologists to probe deeper into the nature of this elusive matter.
180. The sugar caramelized to give an elusive toffee - like flavor that makes the pie even more beguiling.
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