Sentence examples for had to avert from inspiring English sources

She had to avert her eyes.

There was always something to see, even if you had to avert your eyes.

She could talk to me, but only from the other side of the threshold, and she had to avert her head when she exhaled.

Shaw was sandwiched by two Oklahoma defenders who appeared to leave their feet as he tried to make an acrobatic catch for a touchdown and fell so hard to the ground that I had to avert my eyes.

Poland's defender Kamil Glik, making an admirable deviation from diplomacy, said this week that he watched that game and found Ireland so rough at times that he had to avert his eyes.

When George Robertson, erstwhile secretary general of Nato, used a New York speech to warn of the "cataclysmic" effects of a yes vote, suggesting it would be an early Christmas present for global terrorists, even close colleagues had to avert their ears.

Looks like she'll just have to avert her eyes.

How much time did Congress have to avert a government shutdown on Friday?

"We have to avert the bad results and get into a dynamic of victory.

"I have to avert these layoffs at my front door," said Norman Seabrook, president of the Correction Officers Benevolent Association.

Occasionally, though, a portrait can be disconcerting, and you almost have to avert your gaze.