An avoidable delay occurs, but the error is on the side of safety and away from a collision.
Cases of such avoidable collisions can be cited, even though "we never had one on our road.
List the foods used in chronic constipation; list the avoidable ones.
If the theory were widely accepted it would bring about many avoidable disasters.
All the disagreeable, and many of the painful incidents of his subsequent life, all equally avoidable if knowledge regarding them had been instilled into him in his early years, he must buy with money and suffering and disgust in after-years.
The condition of Mile End--those gaunt-eyed women and wasted children, all the sordid details of their unjust, avoidablesuffering weighed upon his nerves perpetually.
Catherine should be tenderly shielded from all avoidable pain, but for himself there must be no flinching, no self-indulgent weakness.
The avoidable causes of disease in children and adults are fully considered and a voluminous appendix treats of the use of water, massage, exercise, food and drinks, and how to prepare them as remedial agencies.
The Avoidable Causes of Disease;= Insanity and Deformity, Together with Marriage and Its Violations.
But indeed it is the result of accidental impediments, of avoidable difficulties that we travel to-day on rails.
Well, in the ampler prospect even this haunting tragedy of innumerable avoidable deaths is but an incidental thing.
Then most dusting and sweeping would be quite avoidableif houses were wiselier done.
Consider, for instance, the wanton disregard of avoidable toil displayed in building houses with a service basement without lifts!
One of the blots on the management of many hospitals is that regrettable delays often take place, and much dissatisfaction and avoidable suffering may arise from this difficulty in the administration of a general hospital.
Amongst the smaller of these establishments there has been so marked an inefficiency at times as to cause muchavoidable suffering.
Again, the fact of evil being at all avoidable is a good thing about such evil.
If we call evil black, and good white, avoidable evil will be black just silvering into grey: and arduous good will be white with a cloud on it.
But good is often attainable only by an effort, and evil avoidable by an effort.
The object of the privateer is profit by capture; to which fighting is only incidental, and where avoidable is blamable.
Nevertheless, submission by America should have been impossible; and would have been avoidable if for the fourteen pendants there had been a dozen sail of the line, and frigates to match.
The whole spirit of the Great State is against any avoidable subjugation; but the whole spirit of that science which will animate the Great State forbids us to ignore woman's functional and temperamental differences.
Under its influence the inhabitants of the earth perceive the evils of our present regime and realize that they are mostly avoidable if everybody had good intentions and good sense.
I mean the needless, useless and excessive loss to our people from premature death and avoidable diseases.
It means that physicians as a class have taken up seriously and systematically the prevention of disease and the education of the public as to how the elimination of avoidable diseases can be secured.
Thus through avoidable causes the evil habit may be acquired.
Indeed, already in 1554, Battista has, in one of her own Colloquies, refused to accept every avoidable consolation arising from her pure election by God.
There is this about these deaths that go on through the months and years: they exaggerate the worst instincts of the soul as it is dragged down--down through brain-wasting largely avoidable if only understood.
He was in a very low mental state when he came, and feeble in body: for fully ten years both himself and physician had held the stomach accountable for all its complainings, and with no thought of avoidable cause.
Nature finally had to succumb because she was not also able to deal with a clearly avoidable disease, indigestion; but she kept up a brave fight until the body was nearly absorbed.
You have caused avoidable friction, simply because your machine for dealing with your environment was suffering from pride, ignorance, or thoughtlessness.
Most friction between individuals is avoidable friction; sometimes, however, friction springs from such deep causes that no skill in the machine can do away with it.
Many people are surprised to learn that known, avoidablecauses are responsible for the condition of about 50% of the insane patients now under treatment.
Ordinary out-of-door noises do not usually disturb the sick, except when the country patient is brought to the city, or the reverse; but nearby and generally avoidable noise is the kind that distracts and harasses nervous patients.
The patient should be covered warmly, and undressed under blankets, without exposure or avoidable moving.
But defective organization and other avoidablecauses deprived them of efficient medical help.
And now the nation blithely accepts the further forecasts of the men who are chargeable with this long sequence of avoidable errors.
I think of any suffering coming to them, any sight of sin or avoidable sorrow troubling those dear eyes, it almost drives me mad.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "avoidable" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
