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Example sentences for: elude

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His people would never admit what he was admitting: that the prize he had chased almost all his adult life was bound to elude him in the most humiliating manner.
As a result, generalizations about the nature of the evolution of specialization, and the clarification of the "folk wisdom," may elude us until the mechanisms and tendencies of evolutionary change are better revealed.
He noted their rebelliousness: their efforts to rise up and throw off their shackles, the ways they cagily resisted their work requirements, the lengths they went to in feigning contentment to elude harsh treatment from their masters.
"For reasons known only to him, Glass mounted what appears to have been quite an elaborate effort, including the falsification of documents and reporter's notes, to trick our editors and elude our fact-checkers."
When he scoops her up to elude some angry baboons, the sequence is more electrifying, more dizzyingly vertiginous than anything in Jurassic Park: The Lost World (1997).