elude

Personal excellence continues to elude me, but I have voluntarily subjected myself to many torturous workouts over the years, in the irrational belief that getting marginally faster will provide some measure of redemption for my myriad failures.

Elsewhere, she tells her inamorata, “It does not matter if you elude my arms/my dear, when thought alone can imprison you.”

But success stories elude many other former football players.

Beautiful, daring and smart, Sophie managed to elude arrest on many occasions.

But Shailene Woodley, both onscreen and off, seems to elude quick characterization.

They would have assumed that they needed to get far out over an ocean to elude that.

For a second Marius considered whether he might not attempt to elude Garnache by a wild and sudden dash towards his men.

There seems to be one oath of this description which bids fair to elude all guess-work as to its origin or meaning.

If only she could reach the corridor above with its intricate windings, she could elude pursuit in some dark corner.

The hounds, who well knew where the ocelot had gone to, were chasing it from tree to tree; but still it continued to elude them.

The next afternoon Jenny, managing to elude the watchful eyes of her mother and governess, came over to the poor-house.