Sentence examples for shirk away from from inspiring English sources
"shirk away from" is a valid phrase that is correctly used in written English
You can use it to refer to someone avoiding or withdrawing from something, usually because they are feeling scared or hesitant. For example, "He shirked away from the challenge, afraid to fail."
"We're a club, we're an industry, we're a code that doesn't shirk away from these sorts of incidents," he said.
Mr. Smith said his hankering for creatures that others shirk away from propelled him to launch the magazine.
He is someone used to getting what he wants, and if he is finding that the politics of rugby in England are different to those in Australia, he will not shirk away from a contest.
I can't shirk away from that responsibility but now it is reflecting on the film and there is a danger that we will lose a lot of money and people will get hurt and that is very scary and very sad".
And great Hector of the shimmering helm answered her; "Surely, all these things concern me too, my wife; but greatly I would dread what they would think, the Trojans and the Trojan women with their trailing robes, if like a coward I should shirk away from fighting.
He is "regularly in the right place to pick up loose balls and does not shirk away from tackles".
"I've never shirked away from a challenge and I'm not going to start now.
We're not shirking away from that one bit and we deserve the criticism which goes with not winning".
I no longer shirked away from contemplating death (thanks Epicurus) or morality (thanks Kant) or misfortune (thanks Epictetus).
2. Use a wooden spoon and stir over a medium heat for around 20 -25 minutes while the polenta shirks away from the side of the pan.
He stood by George W. Bush's war in Iraq, saying "he did his best," while shirking away from comparisons between that conflict and the first Gulf War led by his own administration in the early 1990s, during which Cheney was defense secretary.
