Also bad soldier who shirks his duty and incurs punishment.
Him there whoshirks my gaze, and looks on the ground in shame and fear?
The drama must include everything human, and when passionate sexuality is a necessary part of the dramatic development, Wagner no more shirks it than did Shakespeare or any other great dramatist.
And he will train them to be hardy and not afraid of any labour, and never indolent, for he knows that there is not much use in a guardian who shirks his task and cannot hold out or endure fatigue.
Usually a hoplite who is a good infantryman cannot ride, or, if he is an expert horseman, he shirks marching on foot to battle.
It never shirks the challenge, and, what is more, it never fails to find the expedient by which the new demand is to be satisfied.
Whatever summons us to conflict summons us to life, and life, as we learn from a glance at the past, never shirks the challenge.
It puts a man on a level with the beast of burden, which constantly shirks its work.
He drifts with the tide, he goes with the crowd, he shirks responsibility.
A life of toil may seem to be hard, but it conforms to nature and natural laws and favors the development of the best that is in man; and he who shirks toil misses his opportunity.
It is an unwritten law of the ranch that everybody on the place must share in this work and if anyone shirks his duty he must either promptly mend his ways or else quit his job.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shirks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
