"avoid" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Protestants have avoided speaking of humans as having any "merit" before God.
- It was just small talk, something to avoid speaking of the accident.
- The affair gave the nation a chance to see a big news organization doing its best to avoid plain speaking, never mind journalistic courage.
- You were quite right, Julian, to avoid speaking of it while she was in the room.
- He did not avoid speaking of the fact that she was blind.
- In a pact of silence, they had avoided speaking of one particular colt.
- Iheir only concession to the unfavorable odds was to pointedly avoid speaking of them.
- Avoid speaking of private matters with friends and colleagues.
- They carefully avoided speaking of any personal things, and yet both were conscious of the powerful sexual undercurrent between them.
- He conversed with facility on various subjects, but rather avoided speaking of poetry and literary matters.
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