"avoid" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

avoid verbo

avoid + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 481
avoid confusion • avoid contact • avoid conflict • avoid confrontation • avoid detection • avoid exposure • avoid capture • ...
verbo + avoid
Kolokacji: 56
help avoid • swerve to avoid • try to avoid • manage to avoid • seek to avoid • attempt to avoid • prefer to avoid • tend to avoid • ...
avoid + preposición
Kolokacji: 32
avoid by • avoid during • avoid at • avoid through • avoid in • ...
avoid + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 60
narrowly avoid • carefully avoid • generally avoid • studiously avoid • deliberately avoid • largely avoid • barely avoid • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 11
(4) barely, hardly
Kolokacji: 2
(6) simply, merely
Kolokacji: 2
(7) assiduously, sedulously
Kolokacji: 2
2. sedulously avoid = gorliwie unikać sedulously avoid
  • As she had feared, sleep sedulously avoided her eyes.
  • For the first week he sedulously avoided her, together with her two children.
  • Richard Brown and his brother were both sedulously avoiding looking at him, focused instead on Jamie-who was still gripping his arm.
  • He sedulously avoided my glance.
  • Ostentatiously dressing in local fashions, deliberately not carrying a camera, and "sedulously avoiding the standard sights," the antitourist doesn't have much integrity or agenda beyond his self-conscious decision to stand apart from other tourists.
  • The protagonist lives in a dilapidated hotel on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, sedulously avoiding other people and content to heat soup on a hot plate and listen to his Bach and Mozart tapes.
  • He sedulously avoided my eye, indicating that he had.
  • Wylie gave a thin smile, sedulously avoiding looking at me.
  • Jamie's eyes were fixed on the tent pole, sedulously avoiding mine.
  • Perhaps it's only that they give those of us who sedulously avoid the taint of transgression in our own more workaday performances pause to reflect on the endless mystery of gender.
(9) deftly, skillfully, adroitly
Kolokacji: 3
(10) strictly, rigorously
Kolokacji: 2

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