Sentence examples for on eluding from inspiring English sources

It was like when you dropped a piece of paper on a windy day and it grew a mind bent on eluding you.

For those who had not gone, there was something embarrassing about talking to someone who had, after all the energies they had all expended on damning the war and anyone who was part of it, and on eluding the draft.

On eluding conviction after a mistrial: Why me?

He was extravagantly admired by his peers and by many critics; but popular success, which he cared about more than he let on, maddeningly eluded him.

The mystery of what turns women on has eluded husbands and boyfriends, even women themselves, for centuries.

This technically complex task pays off when Georgina and the cabby-hacker uncover a sophisticated scam for eluding monitors on stock trades, as well as evidence that Julian was murdered.

She drew the Poet on by eluding him, but then became helplessly convulsed by jealousy after seeing him kiss the Sleepwalker.

The group burst into the upmarket jewellers at around 5.30pm on Thursday, eluding security guards with their unusual disguises and swiftly producing handguns from their pockets.

On the season's first morning, the fleet of rented cars and pickup trucks departs on schedule, eluding the parade of cows and slow-moving tractors that Avkat veterans jokingly call "rush-hour traffic". Elton drives two geophysicists to a high point near the village — tentatively known as the "Bronze Age hill" — where they begin setting up gridlines for their ground-penetrating radar survey.

Federal and state laws ban this kind of racial discrimination ― the Fair Housing Act was passed in 1968, banning home sellers and landlords from discriminating against racial and religious minorities ― but it still goes on, often eluding the law.

In The Witness you can wander from section to section, trying out different kinds of puzzle and resolving to come back to ones that eluded you on a first attempt.