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Example sentences for: elusive

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

Smith's political ideas are more elusive.
Murakami's aim is to "capture illegitimate passion's elusive madness," but he "falls short" (Elizabeth Ward, the Washington Post ). This book lacks the scope of his earlier works, and at times the language dips into cliché, but some reviewers attribute this to a poor translation.
However, the identity of the columnar GABAergic cell types providing GABAergic input to LPTCs remains still elusive.
In higher eukaryotes finding of specific DNA sequences essential for DNA replication has been elusive so far.
You're trying to capture something as elusive as a sound, which suggests a word, from which eventually a complete lyric emerges."