Appearance
Use device theme  
Dark theme
Light theme

How to use elude in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word elude? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
Most of the party's leading members who have so far managed to elude arrest are either in hiding in Nepal or have escaped to neighboring India.
In early runs of the game, Riper was asked to play the enemy and attempt to elude the U.S. planners.
He, however, managed to elude them, as he was a master of disguise, and almost everywhere he went he had supporters who hid him.
Obviously the first conception can breed bureaucrats who are adept at figuring out ways to elude the law.
There are those people who feel that success may elude them if they do come out.
In the end, if some of Smith's ambitions elude him, it is perhaps because they are so grand.
Thereafter, my conscience is so laden with guilt that sleep continues to elude me for a further six weeks.
The plan, whose details elude me at the moment, had a lot to do with the improvised use of a sewing kit by a crack team of ninja assassins.
Okay, cheap shot, but Dickson carries such an air of efficiency that you can't believe she would let these details elude her.
The details of each turtle elude me, but one in particular stands out in my mind.
But with six million square miles of ocean, drug runners often elude authorities.
Creating a diversion allowed the NCAA selection committee to elude criticism for its most problematic bracketing in recent years.
That support, and the mountainous conditions, have helped him to elude one of the largest dragnets in history.
Its text and illuminations, unique in both style and subject matter, elude literary and art historical categorization.
To elude this vulnerability, employees should avoid browsing the Internet and visiting unfrequented websites not pertinent to business needs.
At first, small theropods such as Sinosauropteryx invaded arboreal habitats to elude predators.
The rest of the film deals with Newby's efforts to elude the Germans while slowly reconditioning his injured leg.
They become artifacts not only of culture but of time, and as such acquire a timeless, ageless quality that can elude even the best color films.
If, despite a low or nonexistent overhead, decent profits still manage to elude a microbusiness, that's not necessarily a showstopper.
Children who acquire more than one language early can develop thinking skills that may elude monolingual children of the same age.
Show More Sentences
Examples from Classical Literature
No man ever envies us the nimbleness by which we can elude logic and get at truth?
But no artifice of the Athapuscow could elude the well-trained eye of the Chippeway.
You have seen the cuttle fish attempt to becloud the water and elude the grasp of his pursuer.
There are plenty of items of word-formation in even the modern Romanic languages, which completely elude explanation.
That it was so vague as to elude the support of argument made it only the stronger.
But somehow, Mrs. Bob continued to flop the broken wing, and to elude them.
Yet every now and then one would come straight towards me, setting loose a quivering horror that made me quick to elude him.
This was to elude a successful German envelopment on their Louvain right.
However, amidst all the prisoner's efforts to elude a systematic examination, Raoul had recognized his natural accent.
It was resolved to elude vang Khan's design by means of a stratagem.
A perfectly black object, he contended, would elude and defy the acutest vision.
The Baron was fixing his eyes on her and she tried to elude his gaze.
The enemy's fleet, which subsequently did not let a single boat pass, allows his entire army to elude it.
The only way will be to hide so as to elude his watchfulness.
We then ratified our engagement with an affectionate wedding of palms, and to elude suspicion repaired each to his hammock, to spend the last night on board the Dolly.
In fact, the pursuing vessel had almost overtaken them when, fortunately, night came on, and enabled them to double the Cape of Corsica, and so elude all further pursuit.
Once in the trees she knew that she could outdistance and elude them.
Foreign ministers, says Sir William Temple, who was himself a foreign minister, elude matters taken ad referendum, by tampering with the provinces and cities.
But the enemy who, by any lucky concurrence of accidents, has found means to elude the vigilance of the scouts, will seldom meet with sentinels nearer home to sound the alarm.
Find more words!
Use * for blank tiles (max 2) Advanced Search Advanced Search
Use * for blank spaces Advanced Search
Advanced Word Finder

See Also

Nearby Words
5-letter Words Starting With
Find Sentences
go
Word Tools Finders & Helpers Apps More Synonyms
Copyright WordHippo © 2024