Sample Sentences for
elude
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(editor-reviewed)

elude as in:  she eluded the police

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The thief eluded the police
eluded = avoided (got away from)
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    The quarterback eluded the linebackers.
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    "You, Tobias—or should I call you Four?—managed to elude me," she says quietly.  (source)
    elude = avoid (get away from)
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    In that way she will elude her wicked tormentor and break its evil cycle of birth and death.  (source)
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    Besides, the strange nature of the animal would elude all pursuit, even if I were so far credited as to persuade my relatives to commence it.  (source)
    elude = avoid (get away from)
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    Tailed almost everywhere she went, her mail searched, her friends and family interrogated, Shizuka endured intense scrutiny for two years. When October 1, 1948, came, she went to the restaurant, apparently eluding her pursuers.  (source)
    eluding = avoiding or getting away from
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    That was where he earned the nickname Psycho for taking on the biggest players on his peewee football team, where he boldly faced a loaded shotgun, where he jumped from a moving vehicle off an interstate bridge into a lake, where he saved a life, eluded capture, and performed his first nighttime raids.  (source)
    eluded = avoided
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    But you make it sound like a convenient fantasy, the worst kind of self-d elusion.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-sion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in admission from admit, discussion from discuss, and invasion from invade.
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    If my quarry eludes me for three whole days, he wins the game.  (source)
    eludes = evades (is not caught by)
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    The evening was now drawing close, and well I knew that at sunset the Thing, which was till then imprisoned there, would take new freedom and could in any of many forms elude pursuit.  (source)
    elude = escape (get away from)
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    Eluding Jordan's undergraduate, who was now engaged in an obstetrical conversation with two chorus girls, and who implored me to join him, I went inside.  (source)
    Eluding = avoiding (getting away from)
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    So the war swept over like a wave at the seashore, gathering power and size as it bore on us, overwhelming in its rush, seemingly inescapable, and then at the last moment eluded by a word from Phineas; I had simply ducked, that was all, and the wave's concentrated power had hurtled harmlessly overhead, no doubt throwing others roughly up on the beach, but leaving me peaceably treading water as before.  (source)
    eluded = avoided
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    There was not much time, however, for thought or elusion, and she yielded as calmly as she could to the necessity of letting him overtake her.†  (source)
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    He continued to fade, fade, easy, easy, stalling until he could spot The Goober, tall and rangy, downfield where he'd be waiting if he had managed to elude the safety-man.  (source)
    elude = avoid (get away from)
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elude as in:  your point eludes me

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    The point of his story eludes me.
    eludes = is not understood by
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    A curious contest, the nature of which eluded me, was developing between my father and the sheriff.  (source)
    eluded = was not understood by
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    Turtle was so close to winning she could feel it, taste it, but still the answer eluded her.  (source)
    eluded = is not understood by
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    I was trying to find the meaning the poet had in mind, but it eluded me.  (source)
    eluded = escaped understanding by
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    The more anxious I am to find sleep, the more it eludes me.  (source)
    eludes = remains out of reach
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    The fact that the word was eluding a specialist like Leigh Teabing signified to Langdon that it was no ordinary Grail reference.  (source)
    eluding = escaping understanding by
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    She tried to remember how it had felt to stand on the deck of the Dolphin and see before her the harbor of Barbados. The haunting joy eluded her; the dream shores were dim and unreal.  (source)
    eluded = escaped
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    Or rather it's Grace herself who eludes him.  (source)
    eludes = is not understood by
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    I've gotten the little metal cage off the champagne bottle, but the cork is eluding me.  (source)
    eluding = unachievable for
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    The nature of Mr. Tostoff's composition eluded me, because just as it began my eyes fell on Gatsby, standing alone on the marble steps and looking from one group to another with approving eyes.  (source)
    eluded = was not understood by
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    She is lost, vague, trying to catch hold, to make some sense of her former command of the world, but it still eludes her.  (source)
    eludes = escapes understanding (is not understood by)
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    The wind was still howling, and something (a word? a phrase?) was still eluding him.  (source)
    eluding = escaping understanding by
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    Archie knew what it was and recognized it, although it eluded a definition.  (source)
    eluded = was unachievable to give
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