"avoid" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- He was eager to do his work to avoid retribution by the sadistic guards who always walked lazily.
- Lovell went missing; there were rumours that he had escaped and hidden to avoid retribution.
- Philistus took his own life to avoid retribution from his countrymen.
- He agreed to keep his identity secret, to avoid possible retribution against Mayer and his family.
- To avoid further retribution, Winters recalls both ships.
- Jason murders him and the body is dismembered to avoid retribution from the Erinyes.
- The problem was to become that rich and avoid detection and retribution.
- She was not trying to avoid retribution or to avoid being found out in some peccadillo.
- "It is a divided country now," said an Iranian political analyst who would speak only anonymously to avoid retribution.
- The messages on the boards are generally anonymous - often, authors say, to avoid retribution.
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