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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:

.. The word is elusive.
There was no problem identifying the obvious ones, but the less common ones were a bit more elusive.
The situation is further complicated by extensive splicing variation and elusive gene expression.
But no one's claiming that these lists represent some larger truth about the book market (such truths are elusive, anyway, since publishers are notoriously secretive about sales figures).
This goal remains as elusive today as it was during King's lifetime.