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eluding

[ US /ɪˈɫudɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /ɪlˈuːdɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
  1. the act of avoiding capture (especially by cunning)

How To Use eluding In A Sentence

  • Part of the thrill is eluding the proctors who scan the rooftops late at night, listening for the scrape of heels.
  • This ghost, laughing a little too loudly, would be all the more terrible for the flicker of awful, self-deluding pride kindling in it at the thought of white-knuckling through the grimmest month of the year with nothing to talk about in company but how it has given up drink. After the Binge Must Come the Purge
  • The President was deluding himself if he thought he was safe from such action.
  • The President was deluding himself if he thought he was safe from such action.
  • Riding a wave of unchecked immigration and seemingly eluding law enforcement, the Mexican Mafia is poised to become the Cosa Nostra of 21st century America.
  • This is a classic case of hype deluding viewers.
  • With the high rate at which formal employment is eluding many young people many are turning to the informal sector for a living.
  • Within, was the peace as of innocence, reckless blindless, deluding joy, hope, whose still anchor rested on placid but unconstant water. The Last Man
  • Mr. Obama has a gift for eluding antinomies: he is “both-and” rather than “either-or.” Obama's Human Rights and Democracy Hypocrisy
  • Never in our experience as pollsters can we recall such self-deluding misconstruction of survey data. Matthew Yglesias » A Historic Achievement
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