SHIRK in a Sentence
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12 example sentences for SHIRK, such as:
1. We in the Congress can't shirk our responsibility.
2. You have always some excuse or another for shirking work.
3. Just as he was going into the nursery he remembered what it was he had shirked facing.
4. And on both these days I had the restless feeling of one who shirks an inevitable duty.
5. It is probably some unpleasantness and some purple of this sort which the first man is desirous of shirking.
2. You have always some excuse or another for shirking work.
3. Just as he was going into the nursery he remembered what it was he had shirked facing.
4. And on both these days I had the restless feeling of one who shirks an inevitable duty.
5. It is probably some unpleasantness and some purple of this sort which the first man is desirous of shirking.
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Meanings and Examples of SHIRK
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shirk
v. avoid or neglect duty or responsibility; malinger
Classic Sentence:
1 But next morning I perceived clearly enough that my curiosity regarding the Palace of Green Porcelain was a piece of self-deception, to enable me to shirk, by another day, an experience I dreaded.
2 "Yes, looking at the sky, I thought that the dome that I see is not a deception, and then I thought something, I shirked facing something," he mused.
3 Just as he was going into the nursery he remembered what it was he had shirked facing.
4 And whenever she found Carreen on her knees when she should have been taking an afternoon nap or doing the mending, she felt that Carreen was shirking her share of the burdens.
5 I don't know what else to tell yeh, Henry, excepting that yeh must never do no shirking, child, on my account.
6 He did his work in the same slow obstinate way as he had done it in Jones's time, never shirking and never volunteering for extra work either.
7 You have always some excuse or another for shirking work.
8 It is probably some unpleasantness and some purple of this sort which the first man is desirous of shirking.
9 And on both these days I had the restless feeling of one who shirks an inevitable duty.
Example Sentence:
1 We in the Congress can't shirk our responsibility.
2 If you shirk your responsibilities/duties now, the situation will just be that much harder to deal with next month.
3 Brian has a strong sense of duty; he would never shirk any responsibility.