Sample Sentences forelusive (editor-reviewed)
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No matter how she coaxed, the stray cat stayed elusive, slipping under porches the moment she got close.elusive = hard to find or catch
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A permanent solution has proven elusive, but we expect to have one by the end of the month.elusive = difficult to achieve
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The perfect word felt elusive, hovering just out of reach as she wrote her paper.elusive = hard to remember
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Atticus paused, watching me locate an elusive redbug on my leg. (source)elusive = difficult to get a hold of
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The fox-faced girl from District 5 sly and elusive. (source)elusive = difficult to find or catch
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There— she had it, an elusive slip of memory. (source)elusive = difficult to get a hold of
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New beekeepers are told that the way to find the elusive queen is by first locating her circle of attendants. (source)elusive = difficult to find
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Her elusiveness and indifference to established habits of behavior reminded him of his mother, who was as stubborn in her pursuits of the occult as the women of Greater Saint Matthew's were in the search for redeeming grace.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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But now I was here, she was behaving so elusively.† (source)
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All afternoon he'd been fretting about those elusive cottonmouth moccasins, wondering why the reptile wrangler hadn't been able to find them. (source)elusive = difficult to get a hold of
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During those moments Henchard had determined to follow up Lucetta notwithstanding her elusiveness, and he knocked for admission.† (source)
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In the case of Mr. Gryce she had found it well to flutter ahead, losing herself elusively and luring him on from depth to depth of unconscious intimacy.† (source)
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Half a dozen men in long cloaks stood silent and watchful, gazing as ever at houses eleven and thirteen, but the thing for which they were waiting still appeared elusive. (source)elusive = difficult to find and get a hold of
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But Hobbits have never, in fact, studied magic of any kind, and their elusiveness is due solely to a professional skill that heredity and practice, and a close friendship with the earth, have rendered inimitable by bigger and clumsier races.† (source)
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The whole subject is a network of riddles—a network with solutions glimmering elusively through.† (source)
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it was owned by elusive mega-millionaire Horace Derwent, (source)elusive = difficult to get a hold of
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