Sentence examples for yards to avoid from inspiring English sources

He cut through neighbors' yards to avoid running into the cops.

Suddenly, Scott was taking a penalty drop, needing to get up and down from 34 yards to avoid a playoff with Harrington.

Morgan's legs could just about cope with the path, though I had to lift him every few yards to avoid the danger of slipping on loose stones.

UCLA needs to run for 73 yards to avoid becoming the third team in school history since 1945 to fail to reach 1,000 yards on the ground in a season.

Critics downplayed his chances of winning, but these doubts were rebutted when California Chrome won by lengths even though Espinoza eased him for the final 70 yards to avoid over-exertion.

They dart across an open yard to avoid shots from an unfinished building next door nicknamed "the sniper house".

They had to cross a back fence and pass through a neighbor's yard to avoid the rising water.

At the next hearing a week later, the case was dismissed by the magistrate, who criticised the police for failing to contact a man seen running through the park to establish some kind of corroborative evidence, and failing to report at once to Scotland Yard to avoid having to charge the defendants immediately.

Worldly necessities like food would be dropped periodically by the retreat center's staff at the end of a path, 75 yards away, to avoid his glimpsing another human being.

Butler bought five boxes of the drug with his own money and did not claim them as a deductable yard expense to avoid his accountant finding out, according to the BHA.

Black Merino sheep in wool flocks are commonly culled soon after birth and thus are never presented in a commercial sale yard, so to avoid ascertainment bias we excluded the A c1 / A c1 class when calculating the X2 statistic.