Sentence examples for avoiding something of from inspiring English sources

The defending champion Serena Williams remains on course for a sixth Wimbledon title but Wimbledon have Novak Djokovic to thank for avoiding something of a political embarrassment here.

But now, apparently, those mailing in their cards have chosen to take that risk in the hope of avoiding something still more menacing -- the specter of the kind of vengeance killings that have been seen elsewhere when brutal oligarchies have come tumbling down.

And there's always the hope of avoiding something packaged by Ricky's (which invariably, for the fairer sex, means leotards).

"That may mean somewhat fewer jobs in normal years, in exchange for the benefit of avoiding something like what we just went through in the financial crisis, which was an immense job killer".

Adams Elementary School Principal Gabriel Del Real was avoiding something at the end of the Friday's morning assembly.

The act of avoiding something itself is fairly unloaded, but the guilt and shame that comes after makes you put it off again, which leads to more guilt and shame – and on the horrid cycle goes, until the simple task of texting your aunt back is now tantamount to dumping a partner of eight years.

This sense that Rubens is avoiding something gets stronger the more of his paintings you see.

Young Scorsese saw something to avoid, something to consider with horror.

You're avoiding something.

Speaking like this in long strings eliminates the possibility of other thought, kind of like when a kid closes his or her eyes to avoid something they are afraid of, as if their not seeing makes the thing not exist.

I realized I was using the auto-pilot phrase, "I can't afford it" to avoid something else, something deeper inside of me.