How to Use avoidance in a Sentence

avoidance

noun

• His music was a placebo at best and an avoidance strategy at worst.
  — Justin Ray, Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2021
• Many cars have forward collision avoidance systems which will hit the brakes if the driver doesn’t.
  — Brad Templeton, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2021
• Is his act of legal tax avoidance a refusal to acknowledge this social origins of this wealth?
  — WSJ, 7 Dec. 2021
• The vehicles closest to the obstructing ladder will do a dance of avoidance.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2021
• A century of tax avoidance later, the dynasties are going strong.
  — Patricia Callahan, ProPublica, 15 Dec. 2021
• Ethel Mars, the widow of candymaker Frank Mars, was singled out for equine tax avoidance.
  — Patricia Callahan, ProPublica, 15 Dec. 2021
• And that avoidance is rarely questioned from the outside, likely due to the public’s own ignorance of animal agriculture’s harms.
  — Kenny Torrella, Vox, 7 Aug. 2024
• But some religious leaders have offered exemption letter templates and voiced support for vaccine avoidance.
  — Fox News, 20 Dec. 2021
• Getting vaccinated, or getting a booster shot, is thought to be the most effective precaution, with mask wearing and avoidance of large crowds also high on the list.
  — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Dec. 2021
• None of the people mentioned in this article would discuss their taxes or tax-avoidance techniques with ProPublica.
  — Jeff Ernsthausen, ProPublica, 7 Dec. 2021
• Thanks to the ingenuity of the tax-avoidance industry, investors in hot tech companies are exponentially enlarging the tax break.
  — New York Times, 28 Dec. 2021
• The beneficiaries have succeeded in sharing little of their gains with the government, a wildly successful mode of tax avoidance that is largely legal.
  — New York Times, 14 Jan. 2022
• 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
• 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
• Her desire to disappear introduces the real-world concept of hikikomori, an extreme form of social avoidance in which people sequester in their room, sometimes for years — Masa having been one.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2024

Last Updated: 26 Sep 2024