allusive

How to use allusive in a sentence

• The term is appropriately open-ended, since the participants devise pieces that are minimalist and mysteriously allusive.

  In the galleries: Photos capture a fleeting moment, leave an indelible impression | Mark Jenkins | September 10, 2021 | Washington Post

• This is about as explicit as 1Q84 ever gets, and even here the sense of things is allusive.

  Murakami's Dreamy Return | Malcolm Jones | November 4, 2011 | THE DAILY BEAST

• The edge of her wit had become poignant, her speech rendered logical and allusive.

  Mrs. Falchion, Complete | Gilbert Parker

• He was genial and jocose, sunburnt and romantically allusive.

  The Tragic Muse | Henry James

• Immersed in a subject with which they were all familiar, they were allusive, elliptic, and persistently technical.

  The Riddle of the Sands | Erskine Childers