Example sentences for: elusive

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

  • 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.

  • Literary fashion is elusive; what in the 1960s might have seemed like an apotheosis of modernism had, by the decidedly postmodern 1990s, come to seem old hat.

  • At the same time, though, the evil is elusive and invincible.

  • elusive," he says, working to enunciate like a young Alec Guinness but succeeding only in nullifying his natural Scots charm.

  • Bin Ladin continued to be elusive.


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