AVOIDANCE in a Sentence

Learn AVOIDANCE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
361 example sentences for AVOIDANCE, such as:
1. He tends to avoid all physical contact.
2. It had been prolonged to avoid attention.
3. Yet I felt tolerably sure of the avoidance.
4. The submarine submerged to avoid enemy ships.
5. We took a roundabout route to avoid the accident.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of AVOIDANCE
avoidance
 n.  deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  They had not met since the day of the Van Osburgh wedding, and on his side the avoidance had been intentional.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
2  No one referred to it, and this tacit avoidance of the subject kept it in the immediate foreground of consciousness.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 3
3  Selden's avoidance of Miss Bart had not been as unintentional as he had allowed his cousin to think.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 8
4  "I beg your pardon," offered Edna, in some embarrassment, for she should have remembered that Mademoiselle Reisz's avoidance of the water had furnished a theme for much pleasantry.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XVI
5  I have never, but in your presence, interchanged a word with him from that time; then, only when it has been necessary for the avoidance of this explanation.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 45. MR. DICK FULFILS MY AUNT'S PREDICTIONS
6  Yet I felt tolerably sure of the avoidance.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In V
7  Only once did they meet anyone, and then they managed to slip into a field, and so avoid recognition.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER IV. A FLIGHT FOR LIFE
8  But Squealer counselled them to avoid rash actions and trust in Comrade Napoleon's strategy.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
9  It had been prolonged to avoid attention.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 12
10  No gentleman but wishes to avoid a scene, says he.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER STORY OF THE DOOR
11  Sissy recommended that, to avoid making inquiries and attracting attention in the town, they should present themselves to pay at the door.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI
12  Let me use my authority as a leech," answered Rebecca, "and enjoin you to keep silence, and avoid agitating reflections, whilst I apprize you of what you desire to know.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
13  She drew herself into an attitude not of defiance, but of resolution, as one that would avoid provoking assault, yet was resolute to repel it, being offered, to the utmost of her power.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
14  To avoid her aunt, and look for him, she went out.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
15  She began then to be afraid of appearing rude and impatient; and walked to meet them with a great anxiety to avoid the suspicion.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
Example Sentence: (151 in 11 pages)
1  Tax avoidance is the legal utilization of the tax regime to one's own advantage, in order to reduce the amount of tax.
2  The administration hopes to avoid another bruising battle over civil rights.
3  They decided to widen out the river to avoid the flooding.
4  If we take the bypass we'll avoid the town centre.
5  Bridges are used to avoid the intersection of a railway and a highway.
6  He tends to avoid all physical contact.
7  The nation was urged to pull together to avoid a slide into complete chaos.
8  The car veered suddenly to avoid running into the dog.
9  I try to avoid supermarkets on Saturdays - they're always so busy.
10  Duties have been reassigned to avoid wasteful duplication of work.
11  Please wear trainers in the gym, to avoid scuffing the floor.
12  I crossed the street to avoid meeting him, but he saw me and came running towards me.
13  The submarine submerged to avoid enemy ships.
14  The President is eager to avoid a head-on clash with Congress over his health policies.
15  We took a roundabout route to avoid the accident.