Sentence examples for avoid entertaining from inspiring English sources

For about two years, when Julie was 12 to 14, she asked (demanded, more likely; she certainly did have a voice in this deal) if Jane and I could avoid entertaining people we were seeing on the occasions of her girlfriend sleepovers.

In courting clients he's avoided entertaining in "nightclubs or ballrooms".

Avoid actually entertaining evil in your body.

Overseas about two weeks of every month, he wanted a home in New York so he could avoid hotels and entertain.

Schrank has done something here that may sound impossible: He's written a funny novel about publishing that is not caustic but optimistic, not biting but bighearted — a story about the delusions with which self-aware, smart people are all too willing to live in order to avoid the painful (yet entertaining) upheaval that comes with truth.

It is recommended to avoid unknown calls and entertain any unknown service provider that tries to sell services to you.

A little while after Siri came out, I wrote about the importance of trying to capture humor for creating something capable of entertaining users while avoiding annoying them.

And in order to avoid it, various distractions are entertained: travel, drink, drugs, the Xbox, sex, transgressive behaviour – all strategies of avoidance, all hinting at a desperate desire to hold off the acknowledgment of meaninglessness.

Which raises a question: If the sequester will help our enemies, and put the country at risk, shouldn't Republicans be willing to discuss closing tax loopholes that benefit the rich and corporations — the same loopholes they were previously willing to entertain closing — to avoid it?

The self-confessed "urban guerrillas" avoided the law and entertained hundreds of spectators.

Mr. Nemazee said he knew to avoid former Clinton supporters who would not even entertain the notion of giving to Mr. Obama.