Sentence examples for light elude from inspiring English sources

Will Young, who claims to have an affinity with jazz, opens with the most tepid version imaginable of Beyond the Sea, an achingly wistful torch song whose shadow and light elude our hamster-voiced friend.

But the phrase "travelling light" eluded him.

Sure, its gravity is so strong that not even light can elude its grasp.

And he will continue to spend weekends in Paris scouring the flea markets and to devote several hours a day to searching auction Web sites and dealers' catalogs for the few lights that still elude him.

And then the mukhtar's beautiful daughter joins the men, her face bathed in a light that until then has eluded them.

The police believed that their marked cars would be targets themselves; Mr. Dorner is accused of shooting two Riverside police officers who were sitting at a red light last Thursday, as he continued to elude the authorities.

The pool is shallow and the mermaids elude him, but the glamour lighting never falters".

To this end, several rapidly emerging lines of evidence are shedding some light on what until now has consistently eluded a biological explanation.

At the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas, it is easy to see why Auberlen is smitten with the X6 M. Despite its considerable 5,185lb curb weight, the car hustles adroitly around a racetrack with a nimbleness that eludes slightly lighter pavement-pounders such as the Dodge Hellcats.

You can buy malt extract in nearly all health food stores and some larger supermarkets, but if it eludes you, use 2 tbsp soft light brown sugar and a splash more water instead.

In 1994, a team led by chemist Mitch Albert of the State University of New York, Stony Brook, showed that xenon can also light up air flow in the lungs, which eludes standard MRI techniques.