Avoiding

//əˈvɔɪdɪŋ//

"Avoiding" in a Sentence (14 examples)

Avoiding trouble will not always assure safety.

I make a special point of avoiding that shop.

Although an increase of unmarried mothers is needed in order to escape the declining birth rate for some reason public opinion in Japan is avoiding this argument.

Why do you keep avoiding me?

Avoiding one-use kitchen utensils, Elton forgoes apple corers, preferring the more versatile paring knife.

Why are you always avoiding me?

For some reason, people have been avoiding me like the plague ever since I got back from India.

I know you've been avoiding me.

If you don't start treating people with a little more respect, people may start avoiding you like the plague.

Tom is good at avoiding fights.

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Have you been avoiding me? (as progressive form of avoid)

I noted his carefully avoiding eye contact. (as present participle)

I noted his careful avoiding of eye contact. (as gerund)

Two classes of people she had chosen to avoid, having been driven to such avoidings by her aunt's preferences; marquises and such-like, whether wicked or otherwise, she had eschewed, and had eschewed likewise all Low Church tendencies.

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