Sentence examples for were eluding from inspiring English sources

In Chapter 1, for example, Pip recalls watching Magwitch pick his way through the graveyard brambles, "as if he were eluding the hands of the dead people, stretching up cautiously out of their graves, to get a twist upon his ankle and pull him in".

Although sliming is arguably less intense than what our great philosophers were eluding to, humans, even the ones with the best intentions, often instinctively laugh first and help second when another experiences misfortune".

Soon the system was routinely picking up patterns that were eluding frontline clinicians, including an outbreak of highly contagious norovirus.

5 ml of methanol was added to the dry cartridge and allowed to absorb for 5 min after which the samples were eluded out of the cartridge at a flow rate of 1 ml/min.

The RNAs were eluded using RNase free water.

Complexes were eluded by adding 250 μl of elution buffer [1%SDS/0.11 M NaHCO3] to pelleted beads by mixing and shaking by vortexer for at least 15 min.

After preparation of one Papanicolaou smear, the remaining cells were eluded in saline, centrifuged and frozen at −70°C until shipment to the central laboratory for HPV DNA testing.

The new math was eluding me.

Happiness, it seems, is eluding many in the office.

But this postseason, pucks have been eluding Brodeur more often.

Such an ideal constitutive equation has been eluding the analysts so far.