Sentence examples for could not elude from inspiring English sources

But he could not elude the throng, and he briefly answered questions, taking full responsibility.

In the end there was one deadline he could not elude.

It is there to be seen if I want to see it, as my father was there in his black casket and could not elude our gaze.

It also signaled a personal spiritual triumph: By dint of will, she escaped the plague of suicides that had taken her mother and grandmother, but she could not elude deportation to Auschwitz, where she was likely gassed.

In the past month he has been seen only in the briefest of television clips, some of them seemingly designed to show that he can still walk.But there was one public appearance that he could not elude.

The Giants had hoped to spring running back Tiki Barber around the corners more often with screens and short passes, but Barber could not elude the quick Baltimore linebackers.

But Hull's success couldn't elude the Street's grasp forever, and in 1999 Goldman Sachs acquired the firm for more than half a billion dollars.

This time, unless the entire village sneaked off into the forest, the objective of the operation could not wholly elude the troops, as it had in previous campaigns.

Yet, another remembering — of the Western war's more desperate side — could not have eluded them.

(The ironies could not have eluded the author, since the one thing that a loner like Holden doesn't want to be is the voice of a generation — his contemporaries being the very thing he has most contempt for).

This time, lunch would not elude us, queue be damned.