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Short sentences using avoiding

There is no avoiding it. [5]
Perhaps she was avoiding him. [4]

Sentences containing avoiding two or more times

I have been occupying a position, since the Presidential election, of silence--of avoiding public speaking, of avoiding public writing. [7]

More example sentences with the word avoiding in them

He guessed the way to bring down the gusto and pride of this Goliath, but, for a purpose, he took his own time, nodding indolently to Macavoy when he met him, but avoiding talk with him. [11]
He turned up Tower, deliberately avoiding Dalton Street in its lower part, reached Mr. Bentley's door. [9]
The question pierced to the very marrow of his soul, but it was put with the utmost suavity and courtesy, and honeyed with a compliment to the young lady, too, so that there was no avoiding a direct and pleasant answer to it. [6]
Until that blessed time he would remain a wanderer, avoiding the haunts of men. [9]
That is what they wanted to know; and in order to find out they stopped avoiding Gottfried and began to seek his society and have sociable conversations with him. [5]
He slipped in there, avoiding the crowded lobby with its shifting groups and its haze of smoke,--plainly to be seen behind the great plates of glass,--went upstairs, and gained room Number. [9]
In my judgment there is no avoiding that result, save that the American people shall see that constitutions are better construed than our Constitution is construed in that decision. [7]
The French, avoiding the Russians, dispersed and hid themselves in the forest by night, making their way round as best they could, and continued their flight. [2]
I had gained the road once more, and I followed it hopefully, avoiding the stumps and the deep wagon ruts where the ground was spongy. [9]
He speaks of the quickness of their eyes and the accuracy of their judgment of the direction of approaching missiles as being quite extraordinary, and of the answering suppleness and accuracy of limb and muscle in avoiding the missile as being extraordinary also. [5]
Almost unconsciously avoiding the main streets, he rode a roundabout way towards the little house where Constantine Jopp lived. [11]
Ulrich lived in the lonely little palace to which he had retired, avoiding all society, toiling early and late with restless, joyless industry, at a work which pleased him less with every new day. [10]
The white canoe still wandered over the lake, alone, ghostly, always avoiding the near approach of the boats which seemed to be coming in its direction. [6]
Meanwhile, from a spirit of delicacy, avoiding the Place du Vier Prison, he visited Maitresse Aimable, and from day to day learned all that happened to Guida. [11]
Thankful and happy, she had found him with fully recovered consciousness, but the physician and the freedman Andreas, whom she met at the door of the chamber, had impressed on her the importance of avoiding all excitement. [10]
The white friend raised his eyes encountered Officer O'Flaherty's--blushed a little--got up and left the courtroom, avoiding all glances and not taking his own from the floor. [5]
My men had orders to strike across country, avoiding roads, and establishing connection with any considerable towns whose lights betrayed their presence, and leaving experts in charge. [5]
He has not only taught her seventeen ways of breaking her neck, but twenty-two ways of avoiding it. [5]
But there was one chance of avoiding a battle without running away--the glass had been falling all night and morning. [11]
We laughed at one another in the sunshine.... At last we achieved the great adventure of a clandestine meeting and went for a walk in the afternoon, avoiding the houses of our friends. [9]
All the powers of his soul, as of every soldier there, were unconsciously bent on avoiding the contemplation of the horrors of their situation. [2]
To live for myself avoiding those two evils is my whole philosophy now. [2]
For two months my sole occupation was avoiding acquaintances; for during that time I did not earn a penny, or buy an article of any kind, or pay my board. [5]
That Malfalconnet was merely avoiding making common cause with the old intriguer, was a suspicion which vanity led her to reject the more positively the more frequently her countryman sought her to learn what he desired to know. [10]
He explained how McGilveray should be freed--that at midnight some one would come and release him, while he, the corporal, was with his companions, so avoiding suspicion as to his own complicity. [11]
We went the long way thither, and I was very grateful to him for avoiding Marlboro' Street, which must needs bring me painful recollections. [9]
In fact, Ruth Leigh was avoiding him. [4]
Rostov felt so ill at ease and uncomfortable with Boris that, when the latter looked in after supper, he pretended to be asleep, and early next morning went away, avoiding Boris. [2]
Pierre ran after him, avoiding the spot where the young officer was sitting. [2]
She was too high-minded to blame him for having tempted her to her failure with them by his talk about them; but she was conscious of avoiding them in her talk. [8]
Then Luzanne told her story, avoiding the fact that Carnac had been tricked into the marriage. [11]
Irritated and provoked, he took leave of all the others, carefully avoiding a glance even at Paula, though, after he rose, she went up to him on purpose to say a few pleasant words, and to assure him how highly she esteemed his adopted son. [10]
As a rule he and his wife left the building before the last hymn was sung, so avoiding conversation. [11]
He made his escape, and lived a wild life for awhile, dividing his time between fighting Indians and avoiding an Illinois sheriff, who had been sent to arrest him for his first murder. [5]
And when Zeron drifted back into a valse he seized Suzanne's plump figure in his arms and bore her, unresisting, like a prize among the dancers, avoiding alike the fat and unwieldy, the clumsy and the spiteful. [9]
If your betrothed comes here now--there will be no avoiding a quarrel; but alone with the old man he will talk things over and then come on to you. [2]
My father is chief in command of the Third District, and my only way of avoiding active service is to serve under him. [2]
He lived chiefly by himself, as the easiest mode of avoiding those meetings to which he would be exposed in almost every society into which he might venture. [6]
Some refreshments were brought in to her, all delicate and tempting enough; but Dada would not touch them, for she fancied that the merchant's daughter was avoiding her intentionally, and her heart ached with a sense of bereavement and loneliness. [10]
He moved on, avoiding the more habited parts of the place, and by a roundabout came to a house standing very close to the bank of the river. [11]
There is no avoiding that conclusion. [5]
Pierre had been avoiding Natasha because it seemed to him that his feeling for her was stronger than a married man's should be for his friend's fiancee. [2]
And instead of avoiding his eyes, she smiled into them. [9]
Whilst the horns are covered with velvet, which lasts with red-deer for about twelve weeks, they are extremely sensitive to a blow; so that in Germany the stags at this time somewhat change their habits, and avoiding dense forests, frequent young woods and low thickets. [1]
But Miss Thorn appeared in a blue mackintosh and a pair of heavy yachting-boots, courting rather than avoiding a drenching. [9]
She looked away, and, still avoiding his gaze, said, timidly: "I thought I would tell you, Father Damon, that I'm --that I'm in trouble. [4]
David remained calm and watchful, neither avoiding nor yet seeking the circle in which Kaid moved. [11]
But the columns advanced for a long time, always in the same fog, descending and ascending hills, avoiding gardens and enclosures, going over new and unknown ground, and nowhere encountering the enemy. [2]
There are still a hundred chances of avoiding the horrible doom. [10]

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