Sentence examples for as if avoiding from inspiring English sources

More often than not, I glance away, as if avoiding the sight of some particularly gruesome accident.

I don't remember an election in my lifetime in which people talked about "the peaceful transition of power," yet now it's invoked constantly, as if avoiding bloodshed or ballot-stuffing strongmen is a great virtue.

Nothing registers more than the way the dancers frequently turn their faces to one side, close their eyes as if avoiding the glare and open their mouths as if craving air.

The pitch is low and inside, and Derek, pulling back his upper body and tucking in his chin as if avoiding an arriving No. 4 train, now jerks his left elbow and shoulder sharply upward while slashing powerfully down at and through the ball, with his hands almost grazing his belt.

-- Judith Warner, from "The Perfect Gift" Reader Comments: How sad that in our society we are made to feel immodest speaking of happiness, or guilty about throwing parties for our children or having them open presents, as if avoiding self-indulgence were just another way of keeping up with the Joneses.

Asked about the chanting as he walked off the field at Livestrong Sporting Park during the 3-1 Guatemala victory, which sent the United States to the final round of regional qualifying for the 2014 World Cup, Zusi ducked, as if avoiding one of Zeus's lightning bolts.

Asked about the pneumonia, most hospital workers avert their eyes as if avoid the memory of a monster.

Caesar suggests that he sees it as a "refuge, showroom [and] deposit box", though, as Caesar also says, if avoiding public (or Putin's) notice was his intention, he would have been better off buying a six-bedroom detached in Richmond.

The saint bravely thrusts himself forward while the leper turns his head three-quarters, as if tactfully avoiding physical contact, but cannot help sizing up the monk out of the corner of his eye in comical disbelief.

Diet sodas contain Aspartame, which is under investigation for possible harmful side effects, so you might as well avoid soda altogether if you really don't want much sugar.

Whenever a new girl entered his life, he disappeared with her behind closed bedroom doors, as if to avoid potentially compromising interactions with his friends (in whose minds, as the years went by, his many identically slender and dark-eyed young dates and short-term girlfriends all kind of blurred together) and to minimize the fuss of dumping the girl when the time for dumping came.