How to Use avoidance in a Sentence

avoidance

noun

• That, to me, felt like an avoidance of some of the tropes around this kind of story.
  — Lexy Perez, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 May 2024
• The movie is a study of how avoidance is its own form of cruelty.
  — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2024
• And the avoidance then creates the feeling that nobody cares.
  — Miss Manners | Judith Martin, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Aug. 2023
• For most of his life, Cooper dealt with grief with avoidance.
  — Emily Strohm, Peoplemag, 14 Sep. 2022
• And that her avoidance of hosting the group is impolite and unfair to the rest of us?
  — Susan Steade, The Mercury News, 16 Feb. 2024
• In the end, these behaviors are some form of avoidance.
  — Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes, 12 July 2022
• This could be a key to their longevity and avoidance of tumors.
  — Sofia Quaglia, Discover Magazine, 20 Oct. 2023
• The subject of tax avoidance has grown in recent years.
  — Time, 28 Mar. 2022
• There’s a lot of cleaning up of past deeds and misdeeds (and, notably, some avoidance to do the same).
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 27 June 2024
• The first line of defense against bear attacks is bear avoidance.
  — Meg Carney, Field & Stream, 11 Apr. 2023
• Audra had to know that the pandemic wasn’t the reason for my avoidance.
  — Joyce Carol Oates, Harper's Magazine, 10 July 2023
• In December, there was cross-the-aisle talk to close a tax-avoidance loophole used by crypto traders to fund the bill.
  — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 1 Feb. 2023
• The Roth is considered the more powerful tax-avoidance tool for the wealthy.
  — ProPublica, 6 Aug. 2021
• Matt Chambers walked over to his ride nearby, lacrosse stick and helmet in hand and a shred of avoidance in his eyes.
  — Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 10 May 2024
• The first is from Tesla: Some of this is silly, for sure, like the avoidance of a human writing a ticket.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 8 Mar. 2023
• Right now the best advice for tsunami avoidance on a ship is to either run the ship aground and hope for the best, or head for deeper ocean and hope for the best.
  — Bradley Brownell / Jalopnik, Quartz, 11 June 2024
• The avoidance of a wider war has been an achievement of the Biden Administration.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2023
• Two defining features of the 2023 Orioles were their comeback wins and avoidance of sweeps.
  — Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 28 Mar. 2024
• Not that there weren't lies and misstatements and above all avoidance Tuesday night.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 1 Oct. 2024
• As for what not to do, Dr. Williams warns against a common reaction: avoidance.
  — Anna Borges, SELF, 8 May 2024
• The avoidance of mauvais ton is the principle by which Maman and Marguerite live.
  — Julius Taranto, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2022
• That approach includes cracking down on tax avoidance and evasion by the rich.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 30 Sep. 2021
• Their shade avoidance responses pushed them away from each other, but that wasn’t enough to produce the zigzag – the model plants stayed stuck in a line.
  — Chantal Nguyen, The Conversation, 13 Sep. 2024
• His school avoidance peaked in 2021 during seventh grade.
  — USA Today, 15 May 2023
• But framing it as an avoidance of a loss can be more motivating.
  — Prince Ghuman, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2022
• Many cars have forward collision avoidance systems which will hit the brakes if the driver doesn’t.
  — Brad Templeton, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2021
• Here is both attraction and avoidance fused into one flesh.
  — Agata Slowak’s Personal Jesus, Vulture, 21 June 2023
• The vehicles closest to the obstructing ladder will do a dance of avoidance.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2021
• Colbert then noted Vance’s avoidance of answering whether or not Trump lost the 2020 election.
  — Michaela Zee, Variety, 2 Oct. 2024
• By replacing avoidance with approach, exposure therapy retrains the brain to recognize safety.
  — Maia Szalavitz, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024