Modifying Another Word

• maddeningly: Of course the sad truth about happiness is that it is entrancing, desirable and maddeningly elusive.

• frustratingly: Unfortunately, the right content can prove frustratingly elusive.

• notoriously: As lawyers are aware, reasonableness is a notoriously elusive concept.

• surprisingly: This is actually a common bird, but had proved surprisingly elusive.

• somewhat: A clear understanding of how fiber might protect against colon cancer risk remains somewhat elusive.

• rather: A rather elusive warbler in the trees in the garden turned out to be Blyth's Reed.

Preposition: for

• reason: Probably their discovery was so elusive for two reasons: Quasicrystals form only when the constituents are in the right proportions.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• find: Roisin, like so many before her, has been hurt by men and finds trust elusive.

Modifies a noun

• grail: Join herpetologist Romulus Whitaker as he searches the world for this elusive crocodilian holy grail.

• otter: Nature enthusiasts can observe the resident populations of red squirrels or glimpse the elusive otter in the nearby Lough.

• leopard: There, they come across the Thornberry family who are seeking an elusive white leopard.

• ancestor: In the meantime I hope that you find that elusive ancestor.

• mammal: Cumberland News Habitat lure for elusive mammals The hunt is on for an elusive ferret-like creature once thought to be extinct in England.

• creature: By chance he finally glimpses the elusive creature - a beautiful sea nymph, who has crossed into our world from her own.

Used with adjective complement

• prove: Such progress has proved elusive in the Football League Cup.

• remain: Solutions remain elusive not affected by the quot chilling actual premium offers.

• seem: Why does our impact for Christ often seem so elusive?

• become: Lack of clarity - not everything seems to make sense and becomes elusive.

• find: As a runner I was efficient and smooth and that is what I wanted, but found elusive, in swimming.

• appear: In these terms the answer appears as elusive for us as it did for Plato.