How to Use avoidance in a Sentence

avoidance

noun

• The movie is a study of how avoidance is its own form of cruelty.
  — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2024
• And the avoidance then creates the feeling that nobody cares.
  — Miss Manners | Judith Martin, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Aug. 2023
• For most of his life, Cooper dealt with grief with avoidance.
  — Emily Strohm, Peoplemag, 14 Sep. 2022
• And that her avoidance of hosting the group is impolite and unfair to the rest of us?
  — Susan Steade, The Mercury News, 16 Feb. 2024
• This could be a key to their longevity and avoidance of tumors.
  — Sofia Quaglia, Discover Magazine, 20 Oct. 2023
• The first line of defense against bear attacks is bear avoidance.
  — Meg Carney, Field & Stream, 11 Apr. 2023
• Audra had to know that the pandemic wasn’t the reason for my avoidance.
  — Joyce Carol Oates, Harper's Magazine, 10 July 2023
• In December, there was cross-the-aisle talk to close a tax-avoidance loophole used by crypto traders to fund the bill.
  — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 1 Feb. 2023
• The first is from Tesla: Some of this is silly, for sure, like the avoidance of a human writing a ticket.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 8 Mar. 2023
• The avoidance of a wider war has been an achievement of the Biden Administration.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2023
• The avoidance of mauvais ton is the principle by which Maman and Marguerite live.
  — Julius Taranto, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2022
• His school avoidance peaked in 2021 during seventh grade.
  — USA Today, 15 May 2023
• Here is both attraction and avoidance fused into one flesh.
  — Agata Slowak’s Personal Jesus, Vulture, 21 June 2023
• In other words, the avoidance of these places is a safety-seeking behavior.
  — Julia Digangi, Fortune Well, 29 Aug. 2023
• The approach rests on a tax-avoidance strategy so brazen that the US banned its use with stocks and other securities 86 years ago.
  — Zachary M. Seward, Quartz, 13 Dec. 2022
• In New York, there’s a huge discrepancy: Many more cigarettes are smoked than bought—a clear sign of tax evasion and avoidance.
  — Michael Lafaive, WSJ, 10 Mar. 2023
• Prolonging dating can also be a form of avoidance, says White.
  — Women's Health, 20 Feb. 2023
• Classical learning seeks a thoughtful appraisal and appropriation of the best mixed with avoidance of the worst in the past.
  — Adam M. Carrington, National Review, 17 Dec. 2023
• But tax avoidance would reduce the potential revenue by as much as one-third, from $2.1 billion to $1.3 billion.
  — Howard Gleckman, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2022
• The researchers found that rotating was the most common method of avoidance by the 54 females studied — with 83% of them using that avoidance method, according to the study.
  — Brittany Kasko, Fox News, 12 Oct. 2023
• Despite the hackles, the former governor’s avoidance of race is still good politics in the GOP contest.
  — Dan Morrison, USA TODAY, 20 Jan. 2024
• The exact scope of requirements for new types of sea plows and polar bear avoidance on the new trans-Arctic route are still being determined, Mr. Gabla said.
  — Isabelle Bousquette, WSJ, 10 Mar. 2023
• The avoidance of vaccines not only places you or your child at risk but threatens the resurgence of diseases once thought eliminated.
  — Pat Bass, Md, Verywell Health, 19 Jan. 2024
• For most of his life, Cooper's coping mechanism was avoidance.
  — Emily Strohm, Peoplemag, 14 Sep. 2022
• This avoidance might explain the correlation the team found between social media use and JOMO, which surprised the team.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 20 Mar. 2023
• The change aims to clamp down on many crypto investors’ cavalier—and sometimes criminal—tax avoidance.
  — Laura Saunders, WSJ, 11 Nov. 2022
• The tales are often boring, marked by a well-meaning blandness — by an avoidance of uncomfortable truths.
  — Kabir Chibber, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2024
• That boy' felt a little bit like avoidance language to me in this really specific way in my family.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 11 Apr. 2023
• Sensing is focused on functional requirements, with basic obstacle avoidance for the base along with a depth camera on a pan-and-tilt head at the top of the robot.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 8 Oct. 2023
• Malone has a near-fetish for tax avoidance and is a master of strategizing complex transactions.
  — Clare Malone, The New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024