The phrase "avoid marking" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when instructing someone to refrain from making marks or annotations on a document or surface.
Example: "Please avoid marking the pages of the book, as it is a reference material for everyone."
Alternatives: "refrain from marking" or "stay clear of marking".
A uniformed butler brings us glasses of iced water, placed carefully on a folded napkin to avoid marking the table.
But local accounting rules allow Dexia to avoid marking so-called available-for-sale assets to market.
The Securities and Exchange Commission published a letter last month that noted that the Financial Accounting Standards Board's fair value rule allows companies to avoid marking down assets whose values appear low in the market simply because of "forced liquidation".
Banks -- both big and small -- have long sought to avoid marking their assets down to market prices when those market prices are too low.
The response scale is a VAS with horizontal lines, delimited at their extremities by short vertical lines, to avoid marking off the scale [ 16].
Conductors should avoid marking time with their feet, since this could send mixed signals.
Margaret Robertson, director of development studio Hide&Seek, wrote an article last year about self-censoring, and her way of dealing with game industry sexism by avoiding marking herself out as female.
The author tried to correct the secondary deformity by early distraction osteogenesis with the aim of avoiding marked psychological impact from peers of elementary school.
(2) Severe or significant interactions, that should be avoided, marked with a red exclamation mark.
The floors and walls of the cavernous space were painted in white lacquer, and the camera crew wore hospital booties over their shoes to avoid marks.
But even the fact that some Americans are using Greece and other ailing economies as examples of what their country should avoid marks a psychological shift.
