How to Use elide in a Sentence

elide

verb

• But that elides the somewhat sticky question of what hip-hop should do.
  — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2017
• The first set of criticisms elides the boardroom with the barroom.
  — Elizabeth Drew, New Republic, 8 Feb. 2018
• Best to elide all that with skipping and swinging, surely?
  — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 11 Apr. 2022
• But the main way the film wrestles with the complications of its own story is by eliding them.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 23 Dec. 2019
• What this position elided, of course, was that Jim Crow was a legal regime.
  — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
• Which is so much to do with eliding the boring part of the story and getting into the propulsive part of the narrative.
  — Sari Botton, Longreads, 2 Mar. 2018
• This hasn’t been easy given Mr. Trump’s tendency to elide the two, and sometimes the interests of both will match.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 29 Aug. 2018
• That story elided a lot of the troubling parts of Taiwan’s history.
  — Didi Kirsten Tatlow, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2016
• Taking the film from Woolf’s point of view helps elide its uneven moments and lack of character depth (but not its sometimes sludgy pace).
  — Katie Walsh | Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 19 Sep. 2019
• At just under 180 pages, Dueck’s narrative seems a bit too short and elides some crucial questions.
  — Mario Loyola, National Review, 5 Dec. 2019
• The behavior that might have driven her to such an act is carefully elided, if not hard to imagine.
  — Tom Shone, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2018
• Taking the film from Virginia’s point of view helps elide its uneven moments and lack of character depth (but not its sometimes sludgy pace).
  — Katie Walsh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Sep. 2019
• Yet Dack, in eliding herself from the story, replaces the missing details with nothing.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2023
• Making women both the harmers and the harmed, Sharp Objects elides the easy lesson of most crime shows, which is that men are predators and women are victims.
  — Anna Silman, The Cut, 11 July 2018
• There were two things about Kasich that were elided in the rush to find someone (anyone!) in his party that could be wedged into the box labelled Not Insane.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 15 Dec. 2017
• The challenge to overthrow Gaddafi meant that the past lives of money, once so easily elided by the flow of capital, was remembered.
  — Longreads, 3 Oct. 2017
• That truth was always there, mired in language that elided this point with soft-focus poetry.
  — Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2019
• Such questions are elided behind the fig leaf of Hoffman’s mysticism.
  — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2023
• Yet the movie elides more or less all of the substance in this backstory, leaving the central relationship of the film, the marital one, utterly opaque.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2019
• These stark scenes, with lots of passages of white-on-white set against blue skies, slow how smoothly realism elides into abstraction.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 13 July 2019
• Forget, also, the reckless growth of the state in America in recent years, a reality many prefer to elide.
  — Jack Butler, National Review, 22 Aug. 2021
• Trump will mercilessly expound upon them to elide his own.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 26 Sep. 2019
• Fortunately, Aniello and Downs manage to elide the severity of that act with some clever plotting, and a whole lot of weird and wacky elements to distract from that.
  — Katie Walsh, The Seattle Times, 15 June 2017
• After the takeover of Rwanda by a Tutsi dominated rebel movement in the wake of the genocide there was an attempt to elide these deadly distinctions.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 16 Oct. 2011
• This elides self-interested motives for civil-rights reform—the influence of the Cold War, the threat of urban rebellion—in favor of warm and fuzzy ones.
  — Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic, 3 Oct. 2017
• For a documentary that’s longer than most of Spielberg’s movies, Spielberg elides some of the most intriguing aspects of his history.
  — Scott Meslow, GQ, 4 Oct. 2017
• In the 13-plus hours that make up the finished film, certain facts that might complicate or distract from that narrative are elided or left out entirely.
  — refinery29.com, 18 June 2018
• Cause and effect are elided: To what extent did Gay seek consolation in largeness versus in the act of consuming food?
  — Katy Waldman, Slate Magazine, 26 June 2017
• The song has long elided its origins and attached itself to the fascia of Black spirituality.
  — Christina Sharpe, Harper's Magazine, 21 May 2023
• His voice here has body, its rough edges cannily elided, his phrasing constantly finding new angles on lyrics that may once have seemed nailed in place.
  — Michaelangelo Matos, Rolling Stone, 1 June 2023

Last Updated: 9 May 2024