It would have been better to have got the horses a little way off, and have shirked Jog, who did not look like a desirable introducer to a hunting field.
I'm not a coward and never shirked duty yet; but frankly I don't much like facing him for this reason.
He had met them by chance and he found that Mr. Pendean had not shirked but done good work in the war and got the O.
He feels profoundly that such fighting as Germany does, for such a purpose as inspires Germany, must be met by force, and that England could not in the long run, no matter by whom guided or governed, have shirked the task laid upon her.
Yet I felt that if I shirked it, I was only fit to be dumped overboard; and so I went, though not with any great speed, as you can imagine.
I shirked being questioned about my sudden appearance at the foot of the poop ladder; and so I lit my pipe and wandered about the maindeck.
He paused and added, "To be quite honest, I dare say I distasted the job and shirked it.
After considering all this, he had come to the conclusion that Tibetan politics were those of drift; that Chinese officials were too engrossed in self-seeking, and hence the Tibetans shirked action.
Instead, he was called on to withstand the cabals of self-seeking traders who shirked their obligations, and to endure the apathy of a government which was preoccupied with palace intrigues.
So far from carrying out this agreement either in spirit or letter, he shirked it without compunction.
It was her sacred mission in life to galvanise it, especially in the matter of Roy; and no one should ever say she shirked a disagreeable obligation.
I rather shirkedtalking about it, that's the truth.
He had a vague sense that he was regarded as her property, and that the others all shirked responsibility on his account, and that he was, in fact, to them an outsider.
The house of Lorraine, always anxious to increase its importance, shirked impudently this duty, in order thereby to give itself a new distinction, and assimilate its rank to that of the Princes of the blood.
At country dances she had shirkedit whenever she could, taking advantage of a clearer floor to dance with some willing partner right through a valse or a two-step from beginning to end.
It worked on all matters that came within her ken, and she never shirked a question.
The second was, that the Major had shirked the unpleasantness of a personal interview of such a delicate character, and had gone down to Brighton intending to write privately to Spencer from there.
What he especially shirkedwas having to tell this sordid narrative to Pomfret.
It is certain that all three religious conspired together in bringing to the delicious net of the Church those misguided souls, and they shirked no toil that might help in their object.
Poor Wyndham would fain have shirked his duty, had he been allowed to do it.
Isaacs shirkedit a good deal, and you'd have to keep the lists rather better than he did.
If I shirked my duty once it's no reason I should do it for ever.
Well, all the more credit for making up your mind to an unpleasant duty like that when you might have shirked it.
She felt that she had been terribly inexpressive that afternoon, she had shirked points, misstated points, and yet he had been marvellously understanding.
A consultation in Geneva with Herr Bonnier, junior, followed, and as there seemed little doubt that the publisher would be found guilty, if the author shirked his responsibility for any motive whatever, Strindberg left for Stockholm.
He shirked no trouble, avoided no obstacles to equip himself as a writer on gigantic subjects.
Innumerable other petty restrictions are imposed by national or local custom, which are observed with a certain amount of fidelity, though instances are not wanting where the whole thing is shirkedas inconvenient and a bore.
Just as he was going into the nursery he remembered what it was he hadshirked facing.
My mind wandered, and shirked the task that was set to it.
Antoinette's lips moved, but she shirked the question.
It seemed to Caroline as if she had shirkedtaking farewell of them.
She knew what was coming, and shirked me accordingly.
Archie hadshirked before, and now he had shirked again.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shirked" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
