The phrase "try to eschew" is correct and can be used in written English.
It means to make an effort to avoid or abstain from something. Example: In order to maintain a healthy lifestyle, it is important to try to eschew unhealthy habits like smoking and excessive drinking.
Judges, especially at the federal level, typically try to eschew partisan tangles, particularly with presidents.
Because only a fool or a supply-sider would eagerly engage in a debate on economics with Prof. Krugman, I'll try to eschew argument and stick to facts – or, at least, the sort of statements that he himself represents as purely factual: 1.
The interviews showed that, if possible, postdocs try to eschew collaborations with peers in their groups, fearing authorship disputes and loss of first authorship.
That said, it's been a while since Apple did anything overly inflammatory with the App Store, and I try to eschew dogmatism when it comes to technology, so when the iPhone 4S made its debut I decided to cast my trusty Nexus One aside and ran out to buy one for myself.
In a dense paragraph (screenshot below) setting out its fifth reason for reaching the conclusion that Uber drivers are working for Uber as drivers, the tribunal articulates the Kafka-esque logic deployed by the company to try to eschew responsibility for being the employer of a very large workforce — concluding that: "The absurdity of these propositions speaks for itself".
We also try to eschew "costume".
Trying to eschew Bush's role in order to tarnish Obama's results is fundamentally dishonest.
While he himself is an imperial power within his own troupe, he has long tried to eschew the star system of ballet troupes, much as the late George Balanchine did at the New York City Ballet.
The report frets repeatedly about the danger of bureaucracy and says specifically, "We have tried to eschew the 'boxology' that often dominates discussions of government reform". But in the end, the commission could not stop itself.
She preferred writing in the mornings, she said, when she was "cold, energetic, candid, and rational" rather than in the evenings when her brain worked "fast but feverishly and with poorer quality". While engaged on a novel she "keeps office hours" – 9 30 to 5 30 – and tries to eschew luncheon appointments until it is finished.
Even though we continue to hallow the Nobel prizes, this is an age in which we have tried largely to eschew the worship of these figureheads in the history of science.
