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"Shirk" in a Sentence (12 examples)
I won’t mislead you, I won’t betray you, I won't shirk!
A father shouldn't shirk his responsibilities to his children.
We can't shirk our responsibility.
We won't shirk our responsibilities.
the usual makeshift by which they try to shirk difficulties
Back in school, you ever get busted for trynna walk and have some administrator tell you / "Son, you can shirk your obligations, / and try to be different from your peers, / but responsibility, your future / is gonna find you!"
If you have a job, don't shirk from it by staying off work.
September 7, 1830, Lord Byron, letter to Mr. Murray One of the cities shirked from the league.
Shapiro and Stiglitz (1984) develop a dynamic model in which firms induce workers to work hard by paying high wages and threatening to fire workers caught shirking.
You that never heard the call of any vocation, […] that shirk living from others, but time from yourselves.
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I may add here that, coming as the soldiers did from all avocations and stations in life, these details for fatigue often brought together men few of whom had any practical knowledge of the work in hand; so that aside from the shirks, who could work but would not, there were other who would but could not, at least intelligently.
A person can have committed shirk in their lifetime and still find forgiveness (especially by saying the Shahada and becoming a Muslim). The concept is that if one dies in this state (as a mushrik, an idolator, one who engages in and does not repent shirk), there is no forgiveness.
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