I like to see how avarice defeats itself: how, when avoiding to part with money, the miser gives something more valuable.
Besides avoiding the risk of encumbering the boats with a number of men who had not yet got the full command of the oar in a breach of sea, the writer had another motive for leaving them behind.
This record of Enoch's piety teaches that the highest spirituality of nature is not found in avoiding the duties and cares of life, or in seeking a cloistered and solitary existence.
He will pursue a straight course, avoiding evil, trying to feel the hand of God upon him, and the watchful eyes of God over him.
He succeeded in avoiding the surveillance of the police, and secretly undertook journeys to Paris where he said he had friends in the Emperor's immediate circle.
In the rôle of the lawyer he wrote a few lines, avoiding any mention of the horse, and asking how the examinations went off.
In fact, the necessity of avoiding the dangerous country of the Blackfeet had obliged them to make a bend to the south and traverse a great additional extent of unknown wilderness.
She draws no monstrosities, or monsters, thus avoiding on the one side romance and on the other burlesque.
There was not an hour in the day in which they did not confer together on the means of avoiding death, and on the art of rendering themselves immortal.
Hence “the tragedy of human life is likely to continue for a long time to come, in spite of mental philosophers who are ready with the best receipts for avoiding all mistakes of the kind.
The whole of the amusement consisted in tossing the fire-balls with boldness, and in avoiding them with dexterity, something like competition soon entering into the business of the scene.
He will take this end of things, on account of avoiding the railroads and--" Weldon's hand shut on his arm.
But it is mighty hard to draw the line between avoiding needless risks and funking necessary ones," he answered.
Nevertheless worms break through their habit of avoiding the foot- stalk, if this part offers them the most convenient means for drawing leaves into their burrows.
It is claimed also that syntans produce a tough leather, and if used for heavy leather in the early stages they give a tough grain and assist in avoiding a cracky grain.
Fermentive hydrolysis is minimized by cleanliness, alkaline hydrolysis by avoiding strongly alkaline liquors, and solation of collagen is reduced by both, and also by avoiding, as far as possible, the presence of calcium and ammonium salts.
Without particularlyavoiding danger, he would not rush recklessly into it.
It was well known that no death sentence was ever executed with the President's consent, if there was any reasonable excuse for avoiding it.
Great mistakes have been made, and I'm afraid the experiment so far only shows the absolute necessity of avoiding errors which common sense pointed out before any experience.
So saying, and as if desirous of avoiding further discourse, he withdrew to a distance from Philipson.
But it changed when he found that though his young opponent's science was at fault, his strength and dexterity, his wariness in avoiding a close attack, served him in good stead.
Avoiding the spot where the conversation was in progress, he leant over the bulwarks, and gazed idly at the phosphorescent glow upon the water.
He directed that the buildings should be constructed of the most durable materials, "avoiding useless ornament, attending chiefly to the strength, convenience, and neatness of the whole.
The governor's only hope of reconciliation was by settling down on his own popularity with the members of the convention, and, avoiding the principles involved, appealing to their generosity as a personal favor.
This continued capacity for labor is doubtless owing to the natural endowments of a man who has nurtured his forces by avoiding excesses on the one hand, and on the other by carefully husbanding his strength.
The man drew his cloak closer, and avoiding the stragglers who crossed his path, turned into the first street that led to the palace.
For several days his state of indecision had made him find pretexts for avoiding her; but now that the charter was signed and he had ordered its proclamation, he craved the contact of her unwavering faith.
Sick at heart, Odo rambled on from one street to another, avoiding the more crowded quarters, and losing himself more than once in the districts near the river, where young gentlemen of his figure seldom showed themselves unattended.
According to the intelligence gathered by Peppino and Beppo he constantly went about in various disguises that defied detection, studiously avoiding all his accustomed haunts.
Morrel's father, saving him also from suicide, suicide that he had determined upon as the only means of avoiding terrible disgrace.
He was a peaceable boy, always avoiding a quarrel; but when the very life of his friend was in peril, he was found to be as bold and courageous as the best of them.
The young ruffian was very desirous of avoiding him; and when his mother went up-stairs and told him who had come, he put on his clothes, and slipped out of the house by the back door.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "avoiding" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
