Sentence examples for elusive things from inspiring English sources

She was one of the elusive things I did manage to find.

I've said elusive things here and there but nothing actionable, no definitive statements.

Little Scream Laurel Sprengelmeyer, the Montreal-based songwriter who calls herself Little Scream, seeks many elusive things on her wisely idiosyncratic debut album, "The Golden Record" (Secretly Canadian).

That's the elusive thing.

"The elusive thing," he said, "is softness".

Colour is a more elusive thing.

Accountability is an elusive thing in public education.

This was, I thought, the elusive thing I'd been trying to put my hands on.

"That has been an elusive thing for us, finishing quarters strong," Carlesimo said.

It's when I attain that elusive thing called peace of mind.

"Fiction is such an elusive thing -- a collaboration between me and something," Ms. Roy said.