Sentence examples for taught to avoid from inspiring English sources

I was taught to avoid showing off.

People of his generation were taught to avoid politics.

They had been taught to avoid fighting in cities at all costs.

But is sex such a terrible idea that teenagers need to be taught to avoid it?

He was taught to avoid letting others know his thoughts, which has led to sharp disagreement about his intelligence.

Growing up, in a West Indian neighborhood in Brooklyn, I was always taught to avoid a certain kind of woman.

Classicism had displaced romanticism; Eliot had taught readers to avoid the "spilt religion" of Blake and Shelley.

Mr. Realmuto said Mr. Salaway taught him to avoid the hazards of culinary excess.

On assignment, he taught soldiers to avoid venomous creatures in the wild.

Re "Chicken Soup for the Street Fighter" (Aug. 20): My jujitsu instructor taught us to avoid a fight whenever possible.

While visiting Astoria earlier this spring, City Council Speaker Gifford Miller explained to a crowd how his father taught him to avoid a youthful shakedown.