The phrase "avoid commitments" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the act of steering clear of obligations or responsibilities, often in a personal or professional context.
Example: "He prefers to avoid commitments, as he values his freedom and flexibility."
Alternatives: "steer clear of obligations" or "evade responsibilities.".
His mother encouraged him to see "fast women" to avoid commitments that might hurt the act.
In some male orders, members eschew the priesthood so as to avoid commitments (e.g., parish work) outside the cloister.
The increase renewed fears that employers are using cheap casual labour to cut costs and avoid commitments to their workforce.
All that is laudable enough, but will also require political horse-trading as governments Europe's leaders are due to meet in March to discuss the various energy proposals try to avoid commitments that may hurt domestic energy companies or make European firms less competitive than rivals in America, Asia and elsewhere.
They often use procrastination, bumbling inefficiency, and the exasperating excuse of "I forgot" to avoid commitments or let you down.
"Most are looking to avoid commitment.
He once told Mr. Pinter that "the secret of happiness is whores," indicating that he wanted to avoid commitment.
In a successful effort to avoid commitment to a marriage alliance that he considered dangerous and distasteful, the poet purposely remained drunk for 60 days.
As it has become routine, inshallah has also become a kind of convenience, a useful dodge, a bit of theological bobbing-and-weaving to avoid commitment.
Irony, after all, represents a form of detachment; like the knee-jerk acceptance of the positions of others, it's a defensive mode that enables one to avoid commitment and stand above the fray.
My advice to Mr. Marin's live-in girlfriend, who abandoned all of her furnishings to "learn" from a man who worries about a shortage of nonfloral paper towels is: avoid commitment.
