"avoid" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- So hospitality was given without limits-unstinted generosity could avert pillage, and there was one sure way to avoid rape.
- Women may have developed several defenses against and strategies to avoid rape.
- I decided I could avoid rape, but barratry I might manage, if I could find out what it meant.
- The monastery is named after girls that disfigured themselves to avoid rape and murder.
- The behaviour of Soviet troops also played a role, as many Germans committed suicide to avoid rape or out of shame at having been raped.
- Most known cases of self-inflicted rhinotomy concern nuns who mutilated their noses in hopes of avoiding rape.
- If a man wants to avoid rape, he should believe what a woman tells him.
- Saddened by the death of her brother, Kristen disguised as a boy to avoid rape.
- But I couldn't visualize Star not being able to handle a man so as to avoid rape without hurting his feelings.
- Recent US research has shown that women who resist assault, either by showing aggression or physically fighting back double their chances of avoiding rape.
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