Abstains from

Usage examples of avoids.

With his guardian out of the room, Arnold keeps his gaze on the carpet again in the hope that if he avoids eye contact, Hussain will ignore him.

Helen never eats veal, but she has not said that she avoids it as a matter of principle.

The smell is so pervasive that the director avoids bringing visitors home.

Either nobody notices her discomfiture, or everybody avoids looking at her.

Jeanne would study the ingredients first, so he avoids looking at them.

He realized that the way to happiness and Enlightenment was to lead a life that avoids these extremes.

So those who follow the Middle Path which avoids the extreme of indulging one's desires and the opposite extreme of torturing one's mind and body unreasonably, will find happiness, peace of mind and Enlightenment.

It avoids the extreme of self-torture that weakens one's intellect and the extreme of self-indulgence that retards spiritual progress.

Let a man avoid evil deeds, as a merchant, if he has few companions and carries much wealth, avoids a dangerous road.

He deliberately avoids the pleading glances of Alf, who is the latest victim Dr Hodgkinson's social round.

Jeremy avoids studying it too closely lest he discover that the mothballs have not worked.

This, however, would be an error--the sort of error that the theory of relativity avoids.

He doesn't want to talk about it, and he avoids any discussion involving Mother's failings.