The phrase "avoid phone" is not correct and lacks clarity in written English.
It could be used in contexts where one is advising against using a phone, but it needs additional context for proper understanding.
Example: "In this meeting, please avoid phone use to ensure everyone can focus."
Alternatives: "refrain from using the phone" or "stay away from phone usage".
Ms. Storey said customers should try to use text messaging and avoid phone calls, which can saturate a network.
In order to (unsuccessfully) avoid phone taps, he bought a new mobile under the borrowed name of Paul Bismuth.
And that's just on one day in the year — imagine how many people avoid phone calls or interactions with individuals of different political beliefs on the other 364 days.
Would-be thieves would have to go underground or into a Faraday cage to avoid phone self-destruction.
The grid allows medical workers literally to "share environments, eliminate hand-offs, avoid phone tag"—instead of passing messages between multiple physicians or waiting before taking the next step, "we could all meet for one moment" and relay necessary information.
Another new feature aims to avoid phone and stylus being separated, so the phone will pop up a warning message when the handset is detected to be in motion yet the stylus bay is empty.
Bin Laden strictly avoided phone or e-mail communications for fear that they would be intercepted.
He is believed to communicate only by courier and letter, avoiding phone calls and e-mail messages that the United States could detect electronically.
The second is that a seller's broker may be deliberately avoiding phone calls or refusing to submit an offer because he or she wants to avoid having to share the commission.
On Thursday, even as senior Congress leaders in Delhi called their party "a winner" in Gujarat, the Congress' leaders in Gujarat appeared dejected, leaving counting centers and avoiding phone calls from reporters.
A wave of calls filled up many of the voice mail boxes in the Senate at the time, and a spokesman for Ms. Landrieu said the office had never intentionally avoided phone calls.
