Sentence examples for that are elusive from inspiring English sources

Hindsight is a great illuminator of things that are elusive at the time.

"But I think that the stage is particularly well suited to capturing things that are elusive," he said.

The practice also makes it easier for aquariums to find species that are elusive or hard to trap when they are adults.

It can make you feel in the company of holy people and holy events and of people struggling to absorb the parts of life that are elusive and demanding of attention and regard.

It is somewhat self-consciously literary for my taste, and occasionally hard going, but that is because it resembles poetry more than it does prose and is shot through with meanings that are elusive and obscure.

Since then he has scored on breakaways, on a backhander off an offensive-zone face-off, into empty nets — one after another, the kinds of goals that are elusive for players except the rare few who are natural scorers.

The Mercedes engine will give them a reliability that was elusive last year.

Perhaps that explains the popularity of thrillers and mystery stories, where justice appears to end these tales, satisfying a need that is elusive in life, elusive in literature.

Professor Bankoff acknowledged that "advances in remote sensing" have enabled archaeologists to "locate things and sites that were elusive decades ago".

"The idea of trying to please people is dangerous because you're constantly trying to chase something that's elusive, that you'll never find," she says.

The work, which Cappellazzo described as "being about the innocence of childhood as something that is elusive and phantomlike," goes on sale this week, for a price estimated at between sixty thousand and eighty thousand dollars.