Sentence for avoid | Use avoid in a sentence

Avoid example sentence. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use avoid in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for avoid.

• I must avoid her. (10)
• I cannot avoid it. (10)
• I would avoid that. (10)
• He wished to avoid seeing her. (4)
• Avoid the shadow of hypocrisy. (10)
• He chose to avoid Miss Bonner. (10)
• She could not avoid asking herself. (10)
• I see how I hurt you; I could not avoid it. (10)
• One must take lesser risks to avoid greater. (8)
• It is pitching new camps to avoid the enemy. (10)
• He is going downhill, and therefore I avoid him. (12)
• To avoid her aunt, and look for him, she went out. (4)
• To avoid a public scandal she had to go back with him. (12)
• By all means he was to avoid the approach of the gentry. (10)
• He did not state that he should avoid Milan in his march. (10)
• Fanny could not avoid a faint smile, but had nothing to say. (4)
• They had quitted Moorsedge to avoid the visit of his family. (10)
• They are too overwhelming; she would avoid them while she can. (8)
• To avoid people, if she could, had become habitual to her now. (8)
• Avoid them, Miss Dale; they dazzle the penetration of the composer. (10)
• Dancy, for the honour of the Army, avoid further scandal if you can. (8)
• I have hurt him already; help me to avoid doing him a mortal injury. (10)
• To avoid offending these is worth the sacrifice of any private feelings. (8)
• We all object to trouble and responsibility if we can possibly avoid it. (8)
• Opposite was a full-length mirror, and he turned to the wall to avoid it. (8)
• And first, what were the phrases he had to avoid uttering in her presence? (10)
• Otherwise the course of a prudent policy is never to invoke them, but avoid. (10)
• With which he effected a retreat, to avoid a ringing laugh he heard in his ears. (10)
• His absence had been extended beyond a fortnight purposely to avoid Miss Crawford. (4)
• Of course he could not avoid being seen by her, and that was a particular misery. (10)
• You pursue me all over Europe with the little vexations that I came away to avoid. (2)
• She dreaded seeing Mr. Wickham again, and was resolved to avoid it as long as possible. (4)
• As I turned from the door, I could scarcely avoid laughing aloud at the figure before me. (6)
• She meant to avoid any such alteration of manners as might provoke a remonstrance on his side. (4)
• He offered her his hand, which she contrived to avoid taking by dropping a formal half-reverence. (10)
• She walked swiftly to the portico steps and turned to the right, to avoid the laboratory windows. (10)
• He could not help the bent of his mind; but he could avoid subjecting her to the talismanic touch. (10)
• How to effect this withdrawal without causing gossip, and yet avoid suspicion of collusion with Gyp? (8)
• A good genius prompted Evan to avoid the silly squabble that might have ensued and made him ridiculous. (10)
• Heavy drops fell on to her frills, and to avoid them she crossed over under the eyes of the Iseeum Club. (8)
• His plan being always to avoid the military, he had slunk round and away from them as fast as might be. (10)
• The moving accident is certainly not its trade; and it prefers to avoid all manner of dire catastrophes. (9)
• A woman in her position should avoid anything conspicuous, and Nature had given her a too-striking appearance. (8)
• His countryman had rushed inside to avoid him, and remained there pacing the chamber like a lion newly caged. (10)
• He saw the polizta in twos and threes taking counsel and shrugging, evidently too anxious to avoid a collision. (10)
• Then came the day when, to avoid answering his question whether she needed anything, she had gone into the garden. (5)
• I had dismissed my conveyance when nearing the village, to avoid observation, and now took a foot-path over the hills. (6)
• Sometimes he would cover his ears, to avoid hearing of that long stress of mind at which he had now and then glimpsed. (8)
• He echoed Agostino, but Agostino does not sting as he did, and Carlo cannot avoid seeing what the king has sacrificed. (10)
• In executing his publicity-provoking designs in populous centres there is in him no serious purpose to avoid an arrest. (21)
• They were within twenty yards of each other, and so abrupt was his appearance, that it was impossible to avoid his sight. (4)
• Whereat Morsfield, certain that his parasitic thrasyleon apeing coxcomb would avoid extremities, mimicked him execrably. (10)
• The very circumstance, in its unpleasantest form, which they would each have been most anxious to avoid, had fallen on them. (4)
• The editor need not repeat the bold strokes that won public confidence; he has only to avoid anything that would forfeit it. (16)
• The man spoke earnestly, but a third person and extraneous hearer could hardly avoid being struck by the bathetic conclusion. (10)
• The man spoke earnestly, but a third person and extraneous hearer could hardly avoid being struck by the bathetic conclusion. (22)
• She did not mean to have her own affections entangled again, and it would be incumbent on her to avoid any encouragement of his. (4)
• She is attracted to Alceste by her esteem for his honesty; she cannot avoid seeing where the good sense of the man is diseased. (10)
• She began then to be afraid of appearing rude and impatient; and walked to meet them with a great anxiety to avoid the suspicion. (4)
• Like all other Forsytes of a certain age they kept carriages of their own, and never took cabs if by any means they could avoid it. (8)
• Roland could not avoid asking the use of it, considering that Renee, however much she admired and liked, was not in love with him. (10)
• She had been unwilling to mention Bingley; and the unsettled state of her own feelings had made her equally avoid the name of his friend. (4)
• Smiles of intelligence passed between her and the gentleman on first glancing towards Miss Fairfax; but it was most prudent to avoid speech. (4)
• Good-bye to ambition, I thought, and ate heartily, considering robustly the while how far lower than the general level I might avoid falling. (10)
• All this did not favour the tenor of a studious, introspective life; it also brought a sense of unreality which made him avoid his best friends. (8)
• Mrs. Jennings and Mrs. Palmer joined their entreaties, all seemed equally anxious to avoid a family party; and the young ladies were obliged to yield. (4)
• Gower protested himself, with truth, a spotted pard, an ignoramus, and an outcast of all established classes, as the worshipper of Nature cannot well avoid being. (10)

Also see sentences for: elude, evade, fend, neglect, parry, shun.

Definition of avoid:

• avoid, a-void’, v.t. to try to escape from: to shun: (_law_) to invalidate: (_shak._) to leave, to quit. | adj. avoid’able. | n. avoid’ance, the act of avoiding or shunning: act of annulling. (0)

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