Sentence examples for jumped to avoid from inspiring English sources

The other deputy jumped to avoid the car.

Dapuzzo had jumped to avoid a collision between Philadelphia forward Steve Downie and Rangers defenseman Fedor Tyutin.

However, news reports suggested that PIMCO's board had been planning to dismiss him in the next few days anyway, and that he had jumped to avoid being pushed.

The authorities said he jumped to avoid being hit by a westbound train, and ended up in the path of an eastbound train.

A massive explosion shook the earth, and a great black cloud and fireball erupted; in the same instant, bullets began hitting nearby and all the fighters scrambled for their vehicles or began running; in the confusion, men jumped to avoid being hit.

As flies jumped to avoid a small Plexiglas disk sliding toward them on a string, the team noticed something astounding: A full 100 milliseconds before the insects beat their wings to escape, they shuffled their feet and shifted their weight so that their center of mass was just above their two middle legs, which they use to jump.

Left wing Jay Pandolfo had to jump to avoid being hit by the 25-foot shot.

Our brain suppresses the feeling of our eye jumps, to avoid the sensation that the world is constantly quaking.

Bleszinski told me that a paintball match had impressed upon him the ludicrousness of how most shooters operated, with players running around in the open, strafing their enemies and jumping to avoid being shot.

Precisely because it is reasonable to jump to avoid the gruelling business of dying, a good death would soon be seen as unreasonable – and services and budgets adjusted accordingly.

They're saying it's like one of those murderous video games where if you duck to avid the hammer, the scythe cuts your legs off, but if you jump to avoid the scythe, you get bopped in the face with a hammer.