Keep away

Usage examples of avoid.

Despite a conservative training--or because of it, for humdrum lives breed wistful longings of the unknown--he swore a great oath to scale that avoided northern cliff and visit the abnormally antique gray cottage in the sky.

The latter privilege was deemed to have been abridged by city officials who acted in pursuance of a void ordinance which authorized a director of safety to refuse permits for parades or assemblies on streets or parks whenever he believed riots could thereby be avoided and who forcibly evicted from their city union organizers who sought to use the streets and parks for the aforementioned purposes.

He was less concerned with looking good than with avoiding the kind of spectacular abseiling that might put an extra load on the anchor and himself in the morgue.

Africa had been abysmal, though in truth his aim had been more to occupy himself and to avoid his father, than to add to his income.

Avoid the use of those articles of food which produce excessive acidity of the stomach.

Often, the easiest way to avoid an adjective-based cliche is to free the phrase entirely from its adjective modifier.

As is true of all adolescent activities, they need at least SOME supervision to stay on track and avoid trouble.

The goal is to avoid letting the adolescent isolate cyberspace from the rest of their life.

Even though, at that moment, the adolescent may be trying to avoid dealing with these tricky emotional situations in-person, navigating these situations online can be a good way to practice skills that later will generalize to their face-to-face encounters.

The plan had been to avoid any Aenean, Pax, or Ouster worlds or strongholds found along their long voyage away from human space.

The journey took several minutes even at a sprint, through sunken tunnels and window-lined connecting bridges, up and down grilled ramps, through ponderous internal airlocks and sweltering aeroponics labs, taking this detour or that to avoid a blown bubble or failed airlock.

The measliest afrit is worth avoiding, and this one was formidable indeed.

Seawolf responded to the rudder, the nose cone avoiding the pier to the south of Pier 4 as the vessel moved into the channel and a violent white foamy wake boiled up aft at the rudder.

The veteran cop saw it coming and rolled out of the way as though he were an agile young man, barely avoiding the blow.

Carefully, to avoid destroying any existing prints, she removed its contents with a pair of eyebrow tweezers, then unfolded the thin sheets of airmail paper.