He knew what the dream was in essence - what had been done to him, how and why - but its fine detail eluded him.

But that detail eludes me, so I stammer, "Um, they're not heavily breaded or anything."

Again, I dreamed of a black-haired woman, but the details eluded me, and that bothered me.

Although many details eluded her, Lauren could tell that the officer was tall and thin, the kind of thin that comes without effort.

The story had been elevated to shipboard legend, but the detail about the slime devil had heretofore eluded him.

But the details of her life, who she was and is, are eluding her.

The salient details may have eluded me.

She suspected that something about that severed member had been revelatory, premonitory, but the crucial detail eluded her.

She had followed the subsequent medical investigation, but the details eluded her.

There was something about goats, she recalled, but the details eluded her.