Sentence examples for chairs to avoid from inspiring English sources

Her father Michael Doran said she and her friend hid under chairs to avoid being found by the gunmen.

Some of the women fled their chairs to avoid the smoke; other guests rose and mingled in the corners of the room.

Players must throw or bounce the ball after every two pushes of the wheels on their chairs to avoid being penalised.

By midday, cafes along Tunis's main tree-lined boulevard were pulling in their tables and chairs to avoid tear-gas fumes, and pedestrians scurried in fear of brigades of riot police officers patrolling the streets.

While some children were unable to wait a full minute ("low delayers"), others were able to wait up to 20 ("high delayers") by employing various distraction techniques (e.g., covering their eyes with their hands, singing, and turning around in their chairs) to avoid looking at the tempting object.

But his 6-year-old grandson was on the ice, pushing a chair to avoid falling, the traditional Dutch way of teaching children to skate.

Another time, I made a grilled-cheese sandwich while standing on a folding chair, to avoid the rat scooting its metabolically compromised body across the floor.

As the visitor inches its way through the cubicles, employees react differently: a woman tries to lure the stork closer with a sandwich and a man climbs on his chair to avoid it.

Despite having to squeeze sideways into a chair to avoid becoming intimate with the person at the table next to us, we Starbucks dwellers inexplicably chat with our companions as if we are in a sound proof booth.

The girls moved their chairs carefully to avoid making scraping noises, talked in whispers, and exchanged shy looks.

Keep your free leg out in front of you and off the ground as the chair sinks to avoid catching your leg.