Home
Idioms
Top 1000 Words
Top 5000 Words


Example sentences for "eschewed"

Lexicographically close words:
escheated; escheator; escheats; eschew; eschewe; escheweth; eschewing; eschue; esclavage; esclave
  1. Up to this time he had carefully eschewed clerical dress.

  2. But he now had little joy in his work and looked for recreation to a means he had eschewed for the most part since the Easterners had arrived.

  3. But marriage, as well as other so-called secular relations, was eschewed by those who wished to make their salvation sure.

  4. While there were no vows of extreme penance, they avoided cities as centers of immorality, and, with some exceptions, eschewed marriage.

  5. Any enjoyment that bordered on riot seemed to approach me to her and her vices, and I eschewed it.

  6. She had, it is true, eschewed the Golightly party, who resided some north of Oxford Street, in the purlieus of Fitzroy Square, and some even to the east of Tottenham Court Road.

  7. She had eschewed the Golightlys, and confined herself to the Scott connexion; but so great had been her success in life, that, even under these circumstances, she had found herself able to fill her rooms respectably.

  8. We have eschewed sleeping at Birmingham ever since.

  9. He was one who eschewed anything like nonsense, and was highly gifted with common sense.

  10. The Sao Telis are the highest group in Wardha, and have eschewed the pressing of oil.

  11. Other partially tabooed crops are turmeric and al or Indian madder (Morinda citrifolia), while onions and garlic are generally eschewed by Hindu cultivators.

  12. Coyne and livery, the most fertile source of licence and disorder, was to be eschewed as far as possible.

  13. The Lord Deputy might employ kerne and gallowglasses where necessary, and the usual private bands were to be continued; but coyne and livery were to be eschewed as much as possible.

  14. Denis asked laughingly; "and a coat; or have you descended to the habits of your ancestors and eschewed clothes on a hot day?

  15. It is curious that gems should have been profusely used for personal adornment in ancient times by people who subsequently eschewed the custom well-nigh altogether, as the Japanese did.

  16. He woke in prayer and made his body lean, he eschewed company of women, he was humble in receiving all things, profitable in speaking, joyous in admonishing, and cruel in correcting.

  17. All our forefathers, governors of the Church of England, hath with all diligence forbid and eschewed publication of English Bibles, as appeareth in constitutions provincial of the Church of England.

  18. Would that my cousin had eschewed letter-writing!

  19. Hath not Sir John Finett shorn his love-locks and eschewed thy service after leaving thy bower the other night?

  20. Unlike the older actors, the younger had eschewed the sword, the spilling of human blood in defence of their principles.

  21. Not only did he perform on a stage which was intended to resemble a drawing-room, he also eschewed any other costume than that appropriate to a drawing-room.

  22. He talked of the past with the rapt anguish of a visionary, and eschewed human occupation with the rigid inutility of a member of La Trappe.

  23. But dogmatic teachings, and disputations, and sectarian ambitions, are to be carefully eschewed and avoided in such efforts of humanity.


  24. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "eschewed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.