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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:

But the motive factor remains elusive.
In its lovely mountain setting on the Cumberland Sound, this peaceful Inuit town is a good place to buy Inuit carvings — and to start your viewing of harbor seals and the elusive beluga whales.
(2) Although precise figures should remain elusive (under normal circumstances), major new discoveries of slave-holders' journals and artifacts will enable us to compute exact totals.
Finally, unlike the Citicorp-Travelers deal, Daimler and Chrysler will not try to merge fundamentally different product lines in an elusive quest for super market glory.
But while there are qualitative “stories” of this kind in the literature for many seasonal phenomena, convincing quantitative evidence to support them remains largely elusive.