How To Use Elude In A Sentence

  • (Variety's Dennis Harvey called Mr. Friedman's onscreen persona "nebbishy"; The Boston Globe's Wesley Morris was a little nicer, saying, "The movie is the product of his big, shiny love of forgotten soul legends whom superstardom ... has eluded.") Did Pirated 'Wolverine' Review Get Fox 411's Roger Friedman Fired? [Update]
  • If the mother is allowed to refuse a kidney donation that would keep her child alive once the child is born, why should she be preluded from having an abortion if she wants one in order to save one of her kidneys? The Volokh Conspiracy » “Should a Parent Be Required To Donate a Kidney to a Child Who Needs a Life-Saving Transplant?”
  • Isn't abbreviation a prelude to obliteration?
  • That still eludes much of the antipoverty lobby. Times, Sunday Times
  • The mystery of how to sell decent books consistently has eluded publishers and booksellers. Times, Sunday Times
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  • As a prelude to the book, Dr Mitra has compiled an audio CD of some of the works that will appear in the forthcoming book.
  • The prelude to the musical composition is very long.
  • She had been gone about an hour, when the sky suddenly darkened, the wind rose and the thunder rolled in prelude to the storm. The Hidden Hand
  • Another example is the overworked ‘Prelude in C sharp minor,’ where he avoids extra-added stringendos in favor of a steadier tempo throughout.
  • And despite his numerous awards, trophies and honors, one still eludes him: a coveted spot on the U.S. Olympic swim team.
  • But a second Derby still eluded him. Times, Sunday Times
  • This year is the centennial for a treaty under which Japan deprived Korea of its power to conduct foreign affairs, a prelude to Japan's annexation of the Korean Peninsula in 1910.
  • I'm afraid that these troubles are just a prelude , ie to worse ones.
  • It turned out that the pork op-ed was something of a prelude to another, larger attack on the local/sustainable food movement: his recently published book, Just Food: Where Locavores Get It Wrong and How We Can Truly Eat Responsibly, in which he warns the reader of legions of rabid locavores who would build up irresponsible local food systems and disserve global ecology through their uber-local diets. Leslie Hatfield: Miles from Nowhere: Why Does James McWilliams Hate Local Food?
  • King opts for slower tempos than expected, illuminating every stately arpeggio in the opening instrumental prelude until the explosive entry of the voices.
  • Unfortunately, at this point you might also be feeling the beginnings of your resistance to sticking to your resolutions and asking yourself why discipline and willpower seem to elude you. Jason Mannino: How to Plan For R.E.A.L. Change
  • His frequent depressions were the prelude to a complete mental breakdown.
  • When I first heard these pieces, they reminded me of the Bach 48 preludes and fugues in form and coherence, if not in content and style
  • I was desirous, but unable, to obey; these gleams were such as preluded the stroke by which he fell; the hour, perhaps, was the same -- I shuddered as if I had beheld, suspended over me, the exterminating sword. Wieland; or the Transformation. An American Tale.
  • In common with most social networking sites, Facebook has always seemed like a kind of yapping gallery of the lost, the deluded and the damned; if I fancy any of that, I can go to the pub with friends. It's our class, not our colour, that screws us up
  • The curtain rises toward the end of the Prelude.
  • I mean, it is really quite extraordinary that he has eluded capture, and it suggests careful forethought on his part.
  • His father once asked for a cock-a-doodle-doo when the word for chicken eluded him. If you don't possess a language, you are dispossessed.
  • Attempts to unify all four forces of nature have eluded physicists from Einstein to the current day.
  • By night, he toils on his self-indulgent solo art film, obsessively documenting the minutiae of his life while the bigger picture-the growing distance between him and his foxy French lady friend Marlene-eludes him.
  • When he returns, the new firm will be due to launch and he'll be out looking for the bigger deals that have hitherto eluded him.
  • These men were literally deluded, and those who urged them on were _deluded_ by what was then called the liberal part of the press. Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 1
  • Morihei Uyeshiba, the founder of aikido, often demonstrated his ability to elude attack in this way.
  • A chasseur had been dispatched with the counterorder, who passed the exulting, but deluded G---- on the road. The Stranger in France or, a Tour from Devonshire to Paris Illustrated by Engravings in Aqua Tint of Sketches Taken on the Spot.
  • As our older generation knows from experience, unchecked aggression against a small nation is a prelude to international disaster.
  • Blofeldism, an impossible and megalomaniac belief in world domination, is a perfect parody of Nazism and Stalinism —just as empty and just as deluded, although, thanks to 007, not nearly as deadly.
  • And a walk in the country is the perfect prelude to a nice warming drink in front of the open fire. The Sun
  • It actually contains a prelude and three dances a well as the pastorale movement - a popular idiom of the period.
  • But new recruits will need to cultivate diplomacy, and that frequently eludes a successful newspaper hack.
  • This is not simply the story of a gentle, deluded old man whose attempts to expiate his guilt were poorly judged.
  • During the opening credit sequence, the main character cunningly eludes a patrol car.
  • Fugal procedures also permeate the fine passacaglia of the twelfth prelude, in G minor.
  • This time last year few thought things could get any worse and that an early summer soaking would be the prelude to a flaming June.
  • It is time we do ask - for so long as we persist in seeing the problem as theirs alone, the solution will elude us.
  • The decision of Government to send reinforcements to Ireland was mentioned as a prelude to the information from Vienna of the birth of a son to the Princess Nikolas: and then; having conjoined the two entirely heterogeneous pieces of intelligence, the composer adroitly interfused them by a careless transposition of the prelude and the burden that enabled him to play ad libitum on regrets and rejoicings; by which device the lord of Earlsfont might be offered condolences while the lady could express her strong contentment, inasmuch as he deplored the state of affairs in the sister island, and she was glad of a crisis concluding a term of suspense thus the foreign-born baby was denounced and welcomed, the circumstances lamented and the mother congratulated, in a breath, all under cover of the happiest misunderstanding, as effective as the cabalism of Prospero's wand among the Neapolitan mariners, by the skilful Irish development on a grand scale of the rhetorical figure anastrophe, or a turning about and about. Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
  • Each one was a girl of fair common-sense, and she did not delude herself with any vain conceits, or dress herself up, or give herself airs, in the idea of outshining the others.
  • I don't mean the big-name celebrities, the deluded orchestrators behind it all.
  • It was the prelude to one of the funniest scenes in film comedy. Times, Sunday Times
  • It is easy to delude yourself into believing you're in love.
  • The latter symbolizes that egoistic force of maya (the everyday world) which deludes individuals and keeps them from knowing their innate nature as god.
  • Bhagat Singh, the presumed killer, eluded arrest and quickly achieved the status of hero.
  • They had minor breakthroughs but real success eluded them.
  • He, however, managed to elude them, as he was a master of disguise, and almost everywhere he went he had supporters who hid him.
  • And a walk in the country is the perfect prelude to a nice warming drink in front of the open fire. The Sun
  • It eluded us then, but that's no matter. Tomorrow, we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther, and one fine morning.
  • Indeed, as the years go by the originals of subpoenaed smoking pistols themselves will slowly disappear, to the point where those claiming they ever existed can be safely tagged as crazed, deluded loons.
  • Live specimens still elude researchers. Times, Sunday Times
  • A tap at the door preluded its opening, and a middle-aged man with fading red hair walked in, accompanied by his elder daughter.
  • The suites mostly have four short movements, a prelude or allemande, courante, sarabande and gigue, with some variants.
  • The lines form a prelude to his long narrative poem.
  • In the end, if some of Smith's ambitions elude him, it is perhaps because they are so grand.
  • Several ministers were stripped of parliamentary immunity as a prelude to facing corruption charges.
  • Its overall shape eluded me; but its incidental felicities were engaging. Times, Sunday Times
  • Usually the pianist plays a reflective prelude. Christianity Today
  • The state of emergency is a prelude to the introduction of a raft of measures presented to parliament on Tuesday in an 80-clause Bill.
  • Critics who decry regulatory costs are dismissed as deluded apologists for corporate rapacity.
  • Let not my length and my breadth nor yet my bulk delude thee, with respect to the son of Adam; for he, of the excess of his guile and his cunning, fashions for me a thing called a hobble and hobbles my four legs with ropes of palm-fibres, bound with felt, and makes me fast by the head to a high picket, so that I remain standing and can neither sit nor lie down, being tied up. The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III
  • They start with an instrumental prelude where the main melody is played on the harmonium, accompanied by the tabla, and which may include improvised variations of the melody. The Qawwals and Qawwali « bollywoods most wanted photographerno1
  • That is why she covets the titles that eluded her last season.
  • But all this was only a prelude: the true celebration came Saturday night, when forty or so of my parents' friends joined us to fête David and Carée's engagement.
  • How often is this the prelude to a review of barbed gentility? Times, Sunday Times
  • Then you will be enjoying these little nuggets of joy as a prelude to summer's bounty. Times, Sunday Times
  • And yet surely it is a vision worth celebrating, worth giving thanks for if we see it in terms of the embrace of the intellect by the church as issuing in that confident freedom, that liberty not to be manipulated, not to be bullied, not to be deluded, which is celebrated in our epistle. Archbishop Celebrates Selwyn College's 125th Anniversary
  • To suppose that the influence of a minority of party activists will not in the end prevail is to delude oneself.
  • Bhagat Singh, the presumed killer, eluded arrest and quickly achieved the status of hero.
  • So happiness is good for you - yet it still eludes all too many of us. Times, Sunday Times
  • What you are seeing in him eludes me
  • He seemed only a poor clod like those around him, deluded by a childish theology.
  • It's easy to believe that downsizing staff is merely a prelude to a company-wide implosion.
  • Those who tried to delude the people into believing that this was the last war were either fools or knaves, and he inclined to think that there were more knaves than fools.
  • I would have seized him; but he eluded me, and quitted the house with precipitation: in a few moments I saw him in his boat, which shot across the waters with an arrowy swiftness and was soon lost amidst the waves. Chapter 3
  • It is Meredith who unwittingly brings Tom Ripley crashing to earth when it seems that he has eluded danger and gotten away without punishment for his dark deeds.
  • They're a popular band but chart success has eluded them so far.
  • The manager deluded her into thinking he would give her the job.
  • He is chasing himself in pursuit of a glory that has eluded thousands of cricketers who have played this game.
  • Drug mules, long agreed by all as the real carriers of weapons of mass destruction, routinely elude the army, security guards and high-tech scanners.
  • The logic of the concluding paragraph seems to elude me. Matthew Yglesias » The Lives of Translators
  • Instead, they will be populated by industrious persons traveling to these beneficent climates in search of the prosperity that has eluded them in their own country.
  • Given Twelfth Night's tangled skein of interwoven plots and deluded lovers, there is plenty of comic potential.
  • I have been a deluded fool. Times, Sunday Times
  • Your morality, as you have confessed, is no better than a deluded theist's, so I can't do that. Contentment
  • She has watched close friends from school wander into early parenthood and unemployment and is driven by a need to elude their failure. Times, Sunday Times
  • This is either a clumsy attempt to be generous or wishful thinking of a quite deluded kind. Times, Sunday Times
  • Now, the pianist will either feel daunted or liberated by the fact that Prélude no. 4 bears no time signature: we are simply told largo, espressivo.
  • Stewart has come close to winning on a number of occasions and this is one major prize at home which has eluded him.
  • Why are you playing the edges; why bother to debunk, why spend your time exposing people that are outright frauds, phonies, or who are merely self deluded?
  • Beth believed those women were deluded, but nevertheless, she saw how intimacy between two people was never quite erased.
  • This "imposture," in Rosen's opinion, has an intimate connection with bibliography, though he never explains how bibliography causes the editor to take down the 1850 Prelude from the shelf (an easy, objective choice, according to Rosen) instead of the 1805 model (an awkward, subjective motion). 'Romantic Originals': An Exchange
  • For some strange reason, which eluded Adam's understanding, he was enjoying this.
  • The parrot had still eluded capture on the morning of her wedding. Times, Sunday Times
  • Preludes, offertories, anthems, postludes - these and their like are not essential to worship.
  • However, one important fact has eluded you: If you take this job, how much will you be paid?
  • At the time I had wondered why this main theme somehow always eluded me, why the great events never materialized.
  • Okay, cheap shot, but Dickson carries such an air of efficiency that you can't believe she would let these details elude her.
  • Thereafter, my conscience is so laden with guilt that sleep continues to elude me for a further six weeks.
  • Gone are the days of programming a Bach prelude & fugue, a Beethoven sonata, a Chopin ballade and then ending with the Prokofiev Toccata.
  • That support, and the mountainous conditions, have helped him to elude one of the largest dragnets in history.
  • Drug mules, long agreed by all as the real carriers of weapons of mass destruction, routinely elude the army, security guards and high-tech scanners.
  • It was reasonable to expect that a strict search would be made for the archtraitor, as he was often called; and such a search a man of so singular an aspect and dialect could scarcely have eluded. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1
  • The suites mostly have four short movements, a prelude or allemande, courante, sarabande and gigue, with some variants.
  • Moreover, most of the existing ethnic minority units managed, with Rosenberg's assistance, to elude Vlasov's control.
  • Those in charge deluded themselves they were up to speed.
  • Surrounded by an introduction and an afterword, the narratives are organized into three sections, with a small prelude to each section.
  • The prelude to Scene 2 meanwhile shows Poulenc's play with brass and woodwinds in give and take, while puckishly plucked strings and harp play with each other in the background.
  • There remain recurring rumours his blockbuster novels must have been ghosted by a craftsman with the wit that eludes the public man of affairs.
  • Lots of nice drift scenes of very much cars like: subaru impreza wrx sti prodrive wrc porsche turbo carrera gt toyota lexus is200 altezza mr2 ford sierra cosworth puma bmw m3 m5 z3 roadster audi rs4 rs6 quattro s1 mazda rx7 nissan silvia 240sx 350z skyline gtr r33 r34 honda civic s2000 prelude ... WN.com - Articles related to Hamilton quickest as McLarens dominate F1 practice
  • The law allows such individuals to be picked up if they might flee or elude a subpoena for testimony. High court to hear case against Ashcroft
  • Yet still one part eludes her. Times, Sunday Times
  • Since most of these arrangements are written in the keys of C, D, G, F and B-flat, young pianists can be shown how to combine several pieces to create longer music needed for preludes, offertories and communion.
  • The tour to which all of this deliciousness is but a prelude! Asheville has hair | Radical Futures Project
  • It now expects prices to drop 10% - 15% as a prelude to stagnation.
  • The definitive explanation still eludes us. THE EARTH: An Intimate History
  • Oil company rivals may seek to buy it as a prelude to a bid. Times, Sunday Times
  • It is powerful, but it is deluded and self-delusion runs deep in the US. The United States faces a crisis not seen since the Depression | Will Hutton
  • This intricate web of departments and agencies, massively staffed, is technically controlled by the president, but often seems to control him, whether through Cabinet brawls of clashing egos or interagency turf wars -- a specialty in the Bush years, particularly during the first-term prelude to Iraq, when ideological differences pitted Donald Rumsfeld and his hawks at Defense against Colin Powell's diplomats at State, with Condoleezza Rice, in her small redoubt at the National Security Council, squeezed out altogether. Powell's Books: Overview
  • The prelude to the musical composition is very long.
  • Moreover, most of the existing ethnic minority units managed, with Rosenberg's assistance, to elude Vlasov's control.
  • It is a flophouse for deluded officers who believe in the ability to defeat the resistance.
  • When performed live this song was often preluded by descriptions of the harrowing experience many faced simply trying to find a tolerant and peaceful home, away from their places of birth.
  • To play with important truths, to disturb the repose of established tenets, to subtilize objections, and elude proof, is too often the sport of youthful vanity, of which maturer experience commonly repents. Christian Morals
  • Because of the Fourth Symphony, writers tend to view the Prélude and Fugue as an adumbration, rather than as something aesthetically complete in its own right.
  • A cyberattack could be a prelude to a nuclear event, he said. Times, Sunday Times
  • The opportunity came sooner than Lirael had expected, for whatever the Clayr were trying to See obviously still eluded them. LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
  • This is a good choice for groups who do prelude or postlude music at church services or other functions.
  • A perfectly black object, he contended, would elude and defy the acutest vision. Moon Face:The Shadow and the Flash
  • The suites mostly have four short movements, a prelude or allemande, courante, sarabande and gigue, with some variants.
  • But, alas, such a clear and distinct view of mental intentionality still eludes philosophers of mind.
  • Most of this Indian section, which like the rest of the book rides on a great deal of research, is smoothly convincing; we sanction it without quarrel as the prelude to the real event, the shipwreck.
  • He brought magisterial eloquence to the Prelude to Act 3, with mellow, golden-toned playing from the orchestra's brass.
  • While the solution to this mystery eludes us, the facts are evident, and we would be wise to adapt to them.
  • The Woodland Trust, as a prelude to National Tree Week, is holding family planting events from November 18-23 in its Tree For All initiative.
  • For the less strong, it can be a torment and a prelude to personal disaster.
  • I elude authority and make a tidy living being the mutinous karate girl in the corner.
  • I think that deluded his mind. Times, Sunday Times
  • His surviving output consists solely of instrumental music, including organ preludes and fugues, concertos for two harpsichords, and trio sonatas, much of it strongly influenced by Bach.
  • He deludes himself into believing that he has not succumbed to radiation sickness because of some kind of inborn immunity, i.e. invincibility. Daniel Bruno Sanz: Bad Dreams From My Grandfather
  • The darkly resonant tones of the lower strings in the opening Largo were a prelude to the precise, crisp attack of the violins in the succeeding Allegro molto.
  • Freshers' Cuppers - a prelude to the Freshers' Varsity match taking place on 7 November - saw a good turnout of athletes and many strong performances from athletes old and new.
  • Freedom of expression is therefore, one of the very first freedoms to be curtailed when a democracy is being undermined, either as a prelude to a coup d'état or as an early step in the process of gradual tyrannization.
  • Thunder, lightning and a torrential downpour provided an unreal prelude in the futuristic San Nicola stadium.
  • This range of moods, from exaltation to the slough of despond, is entirely appropriate for the 24 Preludes and Fugues — a kind of expressivity rarely matched by the Russian pianists who recorded excerpts from the work, from the overimposing monumentality of Sviatoslav Richter to the dignified, restrained lyricism of Emil Gilels. From Despair to Delight
  • Padilla should not be exempt from detention simply because he managed to elude capture and make his way to this country.
  • Oil company rivals may seek to buy it as a prelude to a bid. Times, Sunday Times
  • No oracular revelations, though I did enjoy his definition of merchant banking, a term whose meaning had always eluded me. The Rise and Fall of Bear Stearns
  • Whether it was his disastrous first confession, the use of his hobby telescope to take in the bronzed Mrs. Selahowski sunbathing next door, the purloined swigs of sacramental wine, or, as he got older, the fumbled attempts to sneak contraband past his father and score with girls beneath his mother's vigilant radar, John was figuring out that the faith and fervor that came so effortlessly to his parents somehow had eluded him. The Longest Trip Home by John Grogan: Book summary
  • In early runs of the game, Riper was asked to play the enemy and attempt to elude the U.S. planners.
  • It came as South Korea and the United States hold an annual military exercise that North Korea calls a prelude to an invasion. South Korea Probes Internet, GPS Disruptions
  • But All-Ireland success eluded him on both occasions.
  • Oh dear, I think Gordon actually thinks that his lines about the Liberals he thinks it is funny to say Liberals not Liberal Democrats - maybe we should all call his party the bour party and see if he likes it having regular changes of leader are funny, I fear he is deluded on this point. PMQs - 24.10.07 - some impressions
  • There are those people who feel that success may elude them if they do come out.
  • As the organist plays the Prelude and Fugue in E Flat by Bach, the bells of the Abbey will be rung half-muffled to a peal of Stedman Caters, comprising 5101 changes.
  • Gail Smith, who has been active in church music, has assembled a useful group of pieces suitable for church or Sunday school preludes, offertories or recessionals.
  • The first version of the play used the story line of a senior official's abduction by a Mafia boss as a prelude to the main plot which satirized politicians and gangsters.
  • The publication last weekend of a bleak report on American unemployment proved merely the prelude to a dire week of political setbacks. Times, Sunday Times
  • Yet he still eluded capture. Times, Sunday Times
  • Conception and disgrace somehow eluded her.
  • This was all just prelude to the cloud of monkeys that not long after passed like a vast red-faced brownness through our little patch of blue sky.
  • Organised by the Avishkar Kala Kendram, as a prelude to its second anniversary celebrations, the programme at the Kerala Fine Arts Hall has been staged more than 55 times in the country.
  • It eluded us then, but that's no matter. Tomorrow, we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther, and one fine morning.
  • We took four hits, and immediately, we went into a rapid descent to elude the machine guns.
  • How Bates financed this project is a question that has eluded some of the country's finest investigative business journalists.
  • The anti-bourgeois, anti-war and anarchistic Dada movement in the early 1900's is the groundwork to abstract art and sound poetry, a starting point for performance art, a prelude to postmodernism, an influence on pop art, a celebration of antiart to be later embraced for anarcho-political uses in the 1960s and the movement that lay the foundation for Surrealism. Carmen Zella: Soundcrash : The Art Movement of Hip Hop
  • The last four measures are codetta, or postlude, and corroborate the prélude. Lessons in Music Form A Manual of Analysis of All the Structural Factors and Designs Employed in Musical Composition
  • You see, he oh-so-kindly sums up the plot as a prelude to each canto, so even if you find yourself thinking "guess you had to be there," as you try to understand some of the more archaic lines and references (while the notes are too busy telling you that "bloudy" is Telecommuter Talk
  • The parrot had still eluded capture on the morning of her wedding. Times, Sunday Times
  • This fact sometimes eludes the people writing about it.
  • The first piece is an intense Prélude whose stabbing chords and mournful melodies sound like the work of an already mature composer.
  • Murray Bradshaw was surprised and confounded at the easy way in which she received his compliments, and played with his advances, after the fashion of the trained ball-room belles, who know how to be almost caressing in manner, and yet are really as far off from the deluded victim of their suavities as the topmost statue of the Milan cathedral from the peasant that kneels on its floor. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867
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  • She's vaguely deluded, thinking the viewers see her as funny and cute.
  • Delude ourselves into that kind of thinking however and a rude awakening will await us.
  • The prelude at Solemn Mass this Sunday is the Prélude from Suite pour orgue, Op. 5, by Maurice Duruflé 1902-1986. A "Music at St. Mary's" note
  • The first poster is, however, even more seriously deluded and may, for all I know, believe also in albino assassin monks from a non-monastic society. June 21st, 2009
  • Our usherettes start striking attitudes and arabesques amongst the audience and thus starts the Prelude to a trilogy of vignettes, punctuated by intervals where we are thankfully encouraged to get up and move about.
  • His first track sets the pace for the entire set, as he subtilizes the high drama of the famous c-sharp minor prelude which has become so hackneyed, often turned into a cartoon of itself owing to its own wide popularity.
  • And here, in the unforgetable crypts of man's unwritten history, unthinkable and unrealizable, like passages of nightmare or impossible adventures of lunacy, he encountered the monsters created of man's first morality that ever since have vexed him into the spinning of fantasies to elude them or do battle with them. LIKE ARGUS OF THE ANCIENT TIMES
  • Autumn is an honest month; it does not delude man like spring does! It shows him the dark face of life, the tragedy, the rot, the separation, the sadness! Mehmet Murat ildan 
  • Senior aides say containment is a modest and achievable goal, a prelude to more progress.
  • A runaway crocodile that has eluded capture in suburban Hong Kong for five months was spotted ‘sunbathing’ on traps laid out for it before being scared off by a boatload of photographers, reports said yesterday.
  • He eluded her only by side-slipping violently, and be lost all the advantage of the speed his dive had given him in that panicked maneuver. Elvenblood
  • Two additional dedications to pianists were "This Nearly Was Mine," inspired by the late Walter Bishop Jr., and an Ellingtonian collage of "Prelude to a Kiss" mixed in with an original dedicatory waltz, "To Duke With Love. Swinging Down in the Basement and Out in the Garden
  • When we believe our own storyline, as if it were a novel that will reach its climax and denouement in tidy fashion, we delude ourselves.
  • And I seem to remember several books with Conan Doyle as the detective though the titles elude me. Novel features pulp novelists
  • And despite his numerous awards, trophies and honors, one still eludes him: a coveted spot on the U.S. Olympic swim team.
  • The quarry twisted, turned and doubled back at speed in an attempt to elude its pursuer.
  • A recent project of yours has been the orchestration of Debussy preludes.
  • This work consists of a collection of 7 chorales with preludes and postludes with which the organist can make his contribution to all the liturgical parts of the religious service.
  • I prefer to interpret it (read: delude myself) as showing love for the comics of an earlier age. What Price Super-Heroics?
  • The gang have managed to elude pursuit by the garda helicopter by escaping through the roads around Dublin Airport where there is a no-fly zone, a Garda source said.
  • The Prelude no.15 itself begins as an idyllic stroll full of anticipation and becomes more emphatic as the bass line takes over the melody and the treble assumes the role of harmony.
  • Previously a thawing-out period, a prelude to the liquid lunch and brief afternoon of work en route to early doors drinking, the dawning of the new day now signals blessed relief and the opportunity of escape from his bed.
  • The exacting demands of the theatrical calling dims the luster that lured the deluded one recklessly to enter the seemingly attractive circle, to appear as the make-believe heroines of romance on the stage. A Pirate of Parts
  • Fifth place was the best on offer in Korea and victories still elude the Finn. Times, Sunday Times
  • Lane intimated the donations were disclosed in the annual report, however finding the exact reference in the 110 pages has eluded your correspondent.
  • The politician deluded the voters with election promises.

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