Mostly he wanted to avoid speaking further of his troubles.

He is here, in this hotel, and I try to avoid speaking to him.

Thus the journal aims to avoid speaking with the voice of any particular national culture or politics.

Intrigued but nervous, she called his office at night and left a phone message, to avoid speaking directly to him.

Most who use this key will even avoid speaking to friends while it's active.

We have very little time and I've been wrong to avoid speaking with you before now.

I avoided speaking to our new bartender for the rest of the evening.

And they would try to avoid speaking if they could.

In the street, even, people will cross the road to avoid speaking to me.

Most try to conceal their identity, and in particular avoid speaking Serbian.

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.