Horace does not employ it; and neither Martial nor Statius avoids monotony in the use of it.
But with this word the materialist only hides or avoids the necessity of supposing a plan and end in place of chance, as we have convinced ourselves in Part I, Book II, Chap.
So again, unlike Minerva[345], even while seeking to operate through Trojans, she studiously avoids contact with them.
For there is no man like him on the earth, blameless and upright, who reveres God and avoids evil.
For there is no man like him on the earth, blameless and upright, one who reveres God and avoids evil; he still is faithful, although you led me to ruin him without cause.
McIntyre, the Antikamnia Chemical Company carefully avoids giving the date on which the article appeared.
And thus the promoter avoids perplexing questions, which, if answered truthfully, would spell bankruptcy.
It is singularly shy, and carefully avoids the presence of human beings, whether sportsmen or labourers.
On its arrival, the Quail betakes itself to open plains and rich grassy meadows, especially where the soil is calcareous, and avoids woody countries.
Not even when the valleys rejoice in the livery of spring does it desert the snowy regions altogether, and, when the mist-wreaths clear away, it avoids the rays of the sun by seeking the shady sides of the mountains.
This prevents cross-breeding among different species and avoids a chaos of animal and vegetable forms.
The living body makes a short cut from fuel to energy, and this avoids the wasteful process of the engine.
He thinks that they are all alike and carefully avoids them in the future.
There is no tedious waiting for trains; he simply drives down to the "crib" and avoids the old-fashioned way of taking a train at a small wayside station, with the chances of being arrested on his arrival in the metropolis.
The man who avoids his kind and lives in solitude fancies he is doing some great thing and raising himself above the level of the existence he despises.
It saves a great deal of trouble, and it gratifies a certain strange instinct that is in us all, and it avoids dangers and conflicts that we should, when we are at Rome, do as the Romans do.
So, even in this life nothing keeps its sweetness which is wrong, and nothing which is sweet and wrong avoids a tang of intensest bitterness 'afterwards.
He avoids enthusiasm as carefully as if it were a disease.
This difficulty Sainte-Beuve avoids by constantly producing fresh descriptions and fresh criticisms of the same men and their works, leaving it to the reader to draw his own conclusions.
They have adopted the attitude not of a judge who decides, but of the humane observer who sees that neither side is completely right or completely wrong and avoids expressing his opinion in a legal form.
Pali is a sonorous and harmonious language which avoids combinations of consonants and several difficult sounds found in Sanskrit.
At this moment we have a huge polar bear who refuses to forget that he was captured in the water, in Kane Basin, and who now avoids the water in his swimming pool, almost as much as any burned child dreads fire.
The rodent hates both these interloping enemies, and carefully avoids them.
Consequently, he runs, he hides, he avoids man, everywhere save in the Yellowstone Park, where he has found out that firearms are prohibited.
At any rate the historian avoids discouragement, at the very commencement, from the paucity of materials.
He waits the proper moment, when his arrangements shall be completed, to commence operations upon a large scale; and meanwhile he very judiciously avoids frittering away his strength in profitless skirmishes.
Nevertheless, as the necessary space for a female is barely provided in this case, we see that the mother avoids as far as she can a two-sex arrangement beginning with males and that she adopts it only in the last extremity.
With several galleries there is accommodation for the entire laying, though each gallery is quite short; and the Bee thus avoids those long series which always create difficulties when the moment of hatching arrives.
In this way, the Bee avoids mildew, which would make its appearance in a mass of hairs still filled with sap.
She studiously avoids error and exaggeration in every form.
For evil brought out ceases to disguise itself, and appears as hideous as it is in reality; but the evil that lurks and glances through the soul avoids analysis and evades detection.
But, strange to say, though it is one of universal and engrossing interest to humanity, the moralist avoids it, the educator shuns it, and parents taboo it.
In reading the Gospel of John one is tempted to say that Jesus almost intentionally avoids affirming His divinity explicitly and directly when there seemed opportunity to do so.
He has the gift of lucidity of expression, and by means of apt illustrations he avoids the cardinal sin of dryness, so that the interest, even of the general reader, will not flag as he smoothly glides through these chapters.
They've put me in as caretaker--an excellent arrangement: avoids all argument about rent.
One avoids difficulties by dismissing them as a product of our curiously complex civilisation--a convenient phrase; let us hope the recording angel may be equally impressed by it.
First, a man apprehends a thing; then he judges it to be good or bad; then he pursues or avoids it accordingly.
The Commedia, though it speaks, as if in prophecy, of Corso's miserable death, avoids the mention of his name.
Thus the use of the original is convenient as it avoids committal to any one of the numerous theories of theologians or Hebraists.
But unlike Vico, Machiavelli avoids becoming the slave of a theory.
It is well to introduce the second lot before the first has quite passed through the rollers; this not only saves the rollers but avoids the extra pressure on the lower corner when a section leaves the rollers.
Nowadays, the indices are cut with index shears, which not only regulates the depth of the index but also avoids the acute angles which are so easily torn in.
Many note-papers, especially unsized and copperplate papers, must first be sized, which prevents the resinous parts from penetrating and thus avoids grease spots.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "avoids" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
