How to Use illusive in a Sentence

illusive

adjective

• Safety and freedom are illusive in the land of the free, no matter how fast or far that train goes.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2021
• Horror comedy is an illusive brand of humor, lots of hits and a ton of misses.
  — Andy Hoglund, EW.com, 29 Oct. 2023
• Things may not come easily, and success may be illusive.
  — Courant Community, 3 July 2017
• There are 6 colored light switches, and each one offers an illusive home upgrade.
  — Alyssa Fiorentino, House Beautiful, 27 July 2018
• The month wraps up with a very special cosmic event, as illusive and intuitive Neptune will leave your sign for the first time in nearly 15 years, ingressing into fiery Aries.
  — Nina Kahn, StyleCaster, 24 Feb. 2025
• In Church, several pews full of people are cropped into an oblique image that captures a moment in time, seizing an illusive memory.
  — John Zotos, Dallas News, 4 Nov. 2020
• Howl, an illusive magic-user, takes over the cooking from Sophie, placing bacon in the pan and feeding egg shells to Calcifer, who happily munches away on the detritus.
  — Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 21 Dec. 2024
• For now though the illusive fast radio burst will continue to be a source of intrigue for astronomers and cosmologists who will continue waiting to find the answers of what lies between us and everything else.
  — Shannon Stirone, Discover Magazine, 17 Nov. 2016
• There is nothing wrong with wanting to be in communication or to lurk on their pages — especially when Venus retrograde links up with illusive Neptune on March 27th.
  — Lisa Stardust, refinery29.com, 27 Feb. 2025
• Dreamy, illusive, and sentimental Neptune will be retrograde in Pisces from June 30 to December 6.
  — Lisa Stardust, refinery29.com, 4 Jan. 2023
• The paper also goes by @polkfishwrap on Facebook, but any mention of the history or etymology behind this name remains illusive.
  — Southern Living, 7 Aug. 2017
• African American gestures can be quiet and illusive, or vibrant and confident.
  — Maya Phillips, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2019
• This granular texture of the electroplated coating is, in my opinion, a key determining factor of the illusive beauty of silvered and gilded dials.
  — Allen Farmelo, Robb Report, 13 May 2024
• But Noihsaf is the illusive, Golidlocks-just right amalgamation of selective and delightful.
  — Erika Veurink, Vogue, 15 July 2022
• Equatorial‘s goal, along with others empowered by this emergence, is to cultivate partnerships and foster the untapped Black consumer base, which many agree is due to coffee’s illusive history and lack of marketing and diversity in the space.
  — Danielle Bernabe, Fortune, 28 Mar. 2021
• The rules between right and wrong were always morphing, intentionally illusive.
  — Issac J. Bailey, Time, 26 Apr. 2018
• These intersecting stories mostly take place over Feb. 29, a fittingly illusive day.
  — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 13 Feb. 2025
• Greg McCown, a 42-year-old real estate salesperson, has been trying for seven whole years to photograph an incredibly illusive happenstance—lightning and rainbow in the same picture.
  — Sasha Henriques, Woman's Day, 12 Aug. 2015
• Misdirected faith and beliefs can be illusive and sometimes dangerous.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2023
• How is the illusive upside somehow beneficial to U.S. citizens?
  — Orange County Register, 29 Jan. 2017
• Along with always prepping the skin before makeup application, Erika also relies on one pretty genius process for finding the seemingly illusive perfect foundation match.
  — Lauren Rearick, Teen Vogue, 19 Sep. 2018
• The California native was also furious that the online profile was listed close by, given his entirely virtual relationship with the illusive Carmella.
  — Henry Chandonnet, Peoplemag, 3 July 2023
• Years of investment manias and financial machinations that powered the job market have lost potency, exposing longstanding downsides of trade that had previously been masked by illusive prosperity.
  — Peter S. Goodman, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2016
• Unfortunately, teleoperation can be cumbersome, and full autonomy is often illusive.
  — Erico Guizzo, IEEE Spectrum, 22 Mar. 2023