Sentence examples for avoid shaking from inspiring English sources

Questioned after the ceremony, Terry admitted he had deliberately sought to avoid shaking hands with Bernstein.

(The contortion that one legislator performs to avoid shaking Mr. Moore's hand is an amusing moment of found slapstick).

No less apparent was the French leader's swerve to avoid shaking hands with Trump when meeting his Nato partners, pointedly preferring to greet Angela Merkel first.

Those who have to travel are being urged to avoid public places, wash their hands frequently, avoid shaking hands and observe careful hygiene.

Even without an election five months away, Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, would have been tempted to avoid shaking Cameron's hand.

Chambliss also told 16th Street investigators that he had turned on Wallace only when the governor, who knew him on sight, tried to avoid shaking hands with him and his wife at a segregationist rally in a Birmingham hotel.

Groh has deliberately avoided shaking up the Jets.

I walked in your wife's wedges, George, and tried avoiding shaking hands myself.

The players might consider avoiding shaking hands because they are a key route of transmission for viruses.

President Felipe Calderón, who avoided shaking hands during the height of the crisis, has begun pressing the flesh again.

A convert and former colleague told me that she now avoided shaking hands with men and that I was wrong to see such behaviour as extreme.