Sentence examples for I were trying to avoid from inspiring English sources

It was the start of a new year and my father and I were trying to avoid discussing death.

But I realized that this made me look as if I were trying to avoid listening, like the monkey who hears no evil.

"I'm trying to avoid sweetness".

I'm trying to avoid hurt feelings here.

It was those five English I was trying to avoid".

[Laughing.] Yeah, I was trying to avoid that.

"I am trying to avoid fistfights," he said.

"I was trying to avoid a catfight," Ms. Harper said.

"I'm trying to avoid the stereotype," he explained.

But I'm trying to avoid posting anything else.

"I'm trying to avoid funny bits," he grimaces.