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Example sentences for "cannot avoid"

  • But yet some ideas to the mind, like some motions to the body, are such as in certain circumstances it cannot avoid, nor obtain their absence by the utmost effort it can use.

  • For in bare naked perception, the mind is, for the most part, only passive; and what it perceives, it cannot avoid perceiving.

  • We cannot avoid it; the subject is one we cannot avoid considering; we can no more avoid it than a man can live without eating.

  • Now it is not in a man's power to avoid unbelief, for he cannot avoid it unless he have faith, because the Apostle says (Rom.

  • Further, no one sins that which he cannot avoid, since every sin is voluntary.

  • Hence the same gloss goes on to say: "If then we cannot avoid suspicions, because we are human, we must nevertheless restrain our judgment, and refrain from forming a definite and fixed opinion.

  • But this is false, because "we cannot avoid suspicions," according to a gloss of Augustine (Tract.

  • Some pious Christians entertain doubts on this subject, but as it is one which has such a tendency to reconcile our minds to the departure of our friends, I cannot avoid cherishing it with fond attachment.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    cannot believe; cannot but; cannot conceive; cannot consent; cannot describe; cannot even; cannot express; cannot find; cannot give; cannot have; cannot imagine; cannot love; cannot make; cannot possibly; cannot pretend; cannot refuse; cannot represent; cannot stay; cannot tell you how; cannot understand; cannot write; excellent food; feeds upon; hath bent his bow; looked round; white glass