How to Use circumvent in a Sentence

circumvent

verb

• He found a way to circumvent the law.
• We circumvented the problem by using a different program.
• To circumvent this, the glasses come with a lens shade that clips onto the front of the glasses.
  — Zackery Cuevas, PCMAG, 14 Mar. 2023
• Become conscious of your blind spots and learn how to circumvent them.
  — Ivan Ehlers, The New Yorker, 24 June 2023
• But just as often, soldiers found ways to circumvent the rules.
  — Arkansas Online, 5 Jan. 2023
• Another way the law has been circumvented is by listing the home at a price slightly below the threshold of the law.
  — Justin Ray, Robb Report, 3 July 2023
• Steals, blocks, deflections, charges, all these things are ways to circumvent the process of man defense.
  — Mat Issa, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
• To circumvent the makeshift gallows, workers started drilling more holes above other parts of the vault.
  — Donald Beaulieu, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2023
• The attempts to circumvent the sanctions appear to have found some success in the U.S. legal system.
  — Catherine Belton, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2024
• Mike McLusky and his network of criminals aren’t the only ones who can circumvent the rules for their selfish gain.
  — Keith Nelson, Men's Health, 14 Jan. 2023
• Right now, this gray area is circumvented with an EULA.
  — Will Bedingfield, WIRED, 4 July 2023
• Apps like TikTok have tried to regulate minors’ time on the platform, but for many of its young users, these controls are easy to circumvent.
  — Time, 3 Aug. 2023
• To circumvent the minefield is to neglect the person who somehow sleepwalked their way to its center.
  — Joseph Lezza, Longreads, 30 Mar. 2023
• Some restaurants in the last few years have implemented service charges as a way to circumvent the tip problem.
  — Scott Hocker, theweek, 25 Jan. 2024
• Russia has begun to circumvent the sanctions by moving oil on a fleet of aging tankers.
  — Richard Vanderford, WSJ, 16 Nov. 2023
• Many were appalled by the way the party used the court to circumvent parliament to push through an unpopular measure.
  — Vanessa Gera, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Oct. 2023
• Shaun of the Dead manages to pay homage to titans in the zombie genre while cleverly circumventing the uninspired tropes these film’s can fall victim to.
  — Colin Scanlon, Redbook, 11 May 2023
• What also helps is circumventing import taxes in the US.
  — Aruni Soni, BostonGlobe.com, 21 July 2023
• Opened in 1977, the South Busway consists of four miles of road built exclusively for buses to circumvent high car-traffic areas.
  — Eden Weingart, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2023
• More Must Reads Just how might this global illness, death, fear, and panic that can circumvent our defenses play out?
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 14 Feb. 2023
• The access would have to be very low threshold for patients, in order to circumvent the illicit market.
  — Peter Grinspoon, Time, 23 Aug. 2023
• Seng says new, advanced solar panels may be able to circumvent this problem.
  — Adithi Ramakrishnan, Dallas News, 16 Aug. 2023
• Globally, countries are looking for ways to circumvent use of the US dollar and have looked to sell greater portions of their debt in local currencies.
  — Daniel Carvalho, Fortune, 22 Jan. 2023
• Chinese firms may already have made progress in circumventing U.S. rules.
  — Lionel Lim, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2023
• So, that might be an easy hurdle for developers to circumvent.
  — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec. 2023
• Yet attempts by the people to organize and circumvent Hamas face steep obstacles – and danger.
  — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Mar. 2024
• There were also images and videos of people being forced into police pickups to circumvent taxi blockades to the airport.
  — Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2023
• Since the August referendum, state Republicans have done nothing but try to find new ways to circumvent that vote.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 30 Mar. 2023
• However, it has been circumvented numerous times by lawmakers who arrive at the Capitol to vote from the airport or the gym by voting from the edge of the Senate floor, with one foot still in the cloakroom.
  — Samantha-Jo Roth, Washington Examiner, 18 Sep. 2023
• To circumvent this measure, Otto asked Jan and colleague Victor Kugler to take over the business, leaving him to serve in an advisory role.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 May 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024