Appearance
Use device theme  
Dark theme
Light theme

How to use illusive in a sentence

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

Sentence Examples
Collectively they were called tergiversate particles because they were so ambiguous, misleading and illusive.
She is seething with illusive fragmentary gold being bewitched typhlotic furtive much like a hovering sapphire embrasure or imaginal sanguinary.
It has cantilevered upper floors and an illusive skin that changes in response to outside conditions, turning nearly transparent at dusk.
This is clearly an argument to foster the illusive and baseless concepts of omnipotence and omnipresence.
At this dream workshop in Pennsylvania, people learn how to remember, even influence those illusive nightly visions.
Chadwick's sculptures are often illusive hybrids suggesting alternately impotent De Chirico-like figures or animated geological forms.
For the shiftworking nurse it is often illusive, frustratingly short, and often leaves her more tired than she was before she went to sleep.
It is not the accuracy of figures, which is always illusive, that is in question, but the sequence of aids and their purpose.
We have even included a conversion table of Imperial and Metric units which can be illusive when you need one.
Mid-Way through the second half Timahoe hit a purple patch and hit three points without reply, they pressed for that all illusive goal but it never came.
One can strip the fifties of its illusive aura of dull conformity without inflating cultural dissidence or generational muscle-flexing into political resistance.
For Mr Soyinka, democracy as 'a ritual' can be masking a deception, and here one can speak of illusive democracy.
That's right: for Burke, truths are illusive and illusions are, in an important sense, true.
The poor tax-collectors chasing after the illusive profit statement remind me of those silly fellows in pith helmets chasing butterflies.
However, while price and performance can be measured directly, quality is a far more illusive attribute.
A disciple is the one who consciously withdraws from shallow and illusive glitters of the world.
Occasionally, the meaning is entirely illusive.
But the report found that providing for a longer time limit would weaken the court's role and make the principle of proportionality, which seeks to limit the costs of proceedings, seem like an illusive goal.
To their credit, the holders made a good effort of the task with goals from Flavio and Mohamed Barakat but despite an extended period of additional time added on at the end of the game, the illusive third did not come.
Do they not realise that their obsessive pursuit of the illusive level playing field and their inward-looking regulation-led policies are damaging growth rather than stimulating it?
Show More Sentences
Examples from Classical Literature
More illusive than gold and many times more precious, radium, the product of pitchblende, had somehow gotten into his blood.
Or was this only an illusive colour thrown on her skin by the red firelight?
We deal not so much with weights and measures as with illusive inaccuracies.
Exact truth is as illusive to discovery by that as other pernicious methods.
To remove externals from us, to rid our minds of the illusive and the inessential, is simply to clear us for action.
Indusium hood-shaped, fixed centrally behind the sorus and arching over it, soon withering, often illusive.
The thing was too vague and illusive to become a purpose at all.
But such expressions on the lips of a pantheist are utterly illusive.
A door at the other end seemed miles away in the illusive light.
Oratory is as stealthy and as illusive as a weazel at night.
And the greater the interval which separates them from philosophy and reason, the more strange and illusive will be the pleasure?
Miss Ophelia and the physician alone felt no encouragement from this illusive truce.
The face of a man chasing an illusive but not uncapturable dream.
He shouted Christine's name, brandished his pistol, knocked his forehead against the glass in his endeavors to run down the glades of the illusive forest.
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
8-letter Words Starting With
Find Sentences
go
Word Tools Finders & Helpers Apps More Synonyms
Copyright WordHippo © 2024