The phrase "avoid an area" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when advising someone to stay away from a specific location for safety, health, or other reasons.
Example: "Due to the recent flooding, residents are advised to avoid the area near the river."
Alternatives: "steer clear of a location" or "keep away from a zone".
Will it make people avoid an area?
And how risky is it?Taking a detour to avoid an area of conflict means spending more time in the air, burning more fuel.
Despite the quiet, I decide not to sleep on the synagogue floor — a large sign warns against it — and avoid an area where other travelers have camped out like 1960s Berkeley squatters, their bags surrounding them.
The authorities have already ordered people living within a 12-mile radius of the plant to evacuate, and recommended that people remain indoors or avoid an area within a radius of 18 miles.
Gil Bloom, vice president of Standard Exterminating, a Long Island City company that has been fighting rats and other interlopers for 70 years, said he had not only seen rats learn to stay away from traps, but he had also seen rats scurry through a building and avoid an area where a trap had once been, though it was no longer there.
We previously established that novel odors such as human and coyote (Canis latrans) urine did not produce alarm responses from western grey kangaroos, thus subjects learned to avoid an area that contained more threatening stimuli [24], possibly because alternative natural resources were available ad libitum in other park areas [23].
BrightSource shrank Ivanpah by 12 percent, reducing the number of desert tortoises that would have to be relocated and avoiding an area of rare plants.
Despite repeated exposure to predator-related cues in the absence of a predator, macropodids persistently avoided an area of highly palatable food.
Ahlén et al. [22] also reported anecdotal evidence that bats foraging offshore in Sweden avoided an area around Utgrunden lighthouse where a powerful radar was in permanent operation.
NY 31A, now East Lee Road, continues on a northeasterly line for another 2.5 mile before curving southward for 1 mi to avoid a marshy area near the eastern town line.
The smaller tank made it more difficult for the fish to avoid a specific area, since they normally traverse large distances and normally only stay in one place for a prolonged period when they sleep [12].
