How to use "avoid" in a sentence

To avoid misconstruction of what I have said, I depart from my purpose not to speak of particular amendments so far as to say that, holding such a provision to now be implied Constitutional law, I have no objection to its being made express and irrevocable.

To avoid being seen, he never went out during the day

The perfect way to avoid suspicion."

No, you don't need that today," he repeats, and he takes the mp3 player from the boy's hands, and he tries to avoid the angry look in the boy's dark eyes.

all to avoid the one big thing they needed to discuss.

Five years ago, however, on her twenty-eighth birthday, she began to realize that she had, if she was lucky, ten years left as a show dancer, and she decided to establish herself in the business in another capacity, to avoid being washed up at thirty-eight

They were going to great lengths to avoid using violence, which confirmed Elliot's suspicion that they wanted to leave him unmarked, so that later his body would bear no cuts or bruises incompatible with suicide.

"The best he can hope to do is avoid losing more ground."

I'm going to cut up this next valley and then swing back around toward the installation and try to avoid some of these crosscurrents

'Of course,' said Lawrence, 'She couldn't avoid overhearing

Its head twisted round in time to receive, but not in time to avoid, the fourth shell.

No doubt, said the report, the situation was strange and serious, but the public was asked to avoid and discourage panic

And then a quick movement of the steamboat (which had turned to avoid being hit) threw him off the seat on which he had been standing