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Example sentences for: elude

How can you use “elude” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

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).
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.
It is well known that the origins of many words still elude the most determined researchers in etymology, but, taken as a whole, I should imagine that the proportion of idiomatic expressions without confirmed etymologies may be higher than that of words whose provenance has not been established.
The feeling that the Slick One must not be allowed to elude capture once more is palpable in the daily White House briefings, in the hostile questioning by David Bloom of NBC or Deborah Orin of the New York Post , and in the massive play the scandal continues to receive everywhere.
Prosperity and stability continued to elude the country, which remained neutral during World War I.