How to Use circumvent in a Sentence

circumvent

verb

• He found a way to circumvent the law.
• We circumvented the problem by using a different program.
• The judge said the group can’t use courts to circumvent the claims and appeal process.
  — Mckenna Oxenden, baltimoresun.com, 9 Mar. 2022
• To circumvent this, the glasses come with a lens shade that clips onto the front of the glasses.
  — Zackery Cuevas, PCMAG, 14 Mar. 2023
• Why should any woman have to circumvent the law or break it?
  — Judy Sammon, cleveland, 17 May 2022
• It's since gotten harder to circumvent, but there are still ways to get around the ban.
  — Kate Irwin, PCMAG, 7 Nov. 2024
• Become conscious of your blind spots and learn how to circumvent them.
  — Ivan Ehlers, The New Yorker, 24 June 2023
• Delta-9, because of this THC dry weight ratio, can’t be sold in leaf or vape forms, which are too light to circumvent the rules.
  — Michael Taylor, San Antonio Express-News, 27 July 2022
• There will likely be ways to circumvent these rules, though.
  — Olivia Goldhill, STAT, 10 Mar. 2022
• Each is designed to circumvent the filibuster to get through the Senate with a bare 51 votes.
  — David Sivak, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 3 Dec. 2024
• Ruth: There is already an effort from Biden aides and allies to try to circumvent that process.
  — Ruth Marcus, Washington Post, 21 July 2024
• The Breakaway is taking another route to circumvent the path of Beryl.
  — Vinod Sreeharsha, Miami Herald, 3 July 2024
• But just as often, soldiers found ways to circumvent the rules.
  — Arkansas Online, 5 Jan. 2023
• Another way the law has been circumvented is by listing the home at a price slightly below the threshold of the law.
  — Justin Ray, Robb Report, 3 July 2023
• Steals, blocks, deflections, charges, all these things are ways to circumvent the process of man defense.
  — Mat Issa, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
• To circumvent the makeshift gallows, workers started drilling more holes above other parts of the vault.
  — Donald Beaulieu, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2023
• They’ve been surprised by the lack of sign-on from G-20 states, even if those countries aren’t going out of their way to help Moscow circumvent the penalties.
  — Alan Crawford, Bloomberg.com, 5 Aug. 2022
• The project will enable Russia to circumvent a transit system that runs through Ukraine, and Kyiv has lobbied against it.
  — William Mauldin, WSJ, 12 Jan. 2022
• The attempts to circumvent the sanctions appear to have found some success in the U.S. legal system.
  — Catherine Belton, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2024
• Mike McLusky and his network of criminals aren’t the only ones who can circumvent the rules for their selfish gain.
  — Keith Nelson, Men's Health, 14 Jan. 2023
• The right technology partner could help provide a road map and circumvent the bumps.
  — Kannan Amaresh, Forbes, 17 May 2022
• Right now, this gray area is circumvented with an EULA.
  — Will Bedingfield, WIRED, 4 July 2023
• The plot follows a group of young women who disguise themselves as men to circumvent that exact ban and simply cheer on their team.
  — Indiewire Staff, IndieWire, 12 Aug. 2024
• For now, guardians must learn how to use the parental controls while also being mindful that teens can often circumvent those tools.
  — Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN, 13 Nov. 2022
• Apps like TikTok have tried to regulate minors’ time on the platform, but for many of its young users, these controls are easy to circumvent.
  — Time, 3 Aug. 2023
• Still, some experts say that the line is unnecessary — that Russia built the project to circumvent Ukraine and to stop paying it transit fees.
  — Ken Silverstein, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2022
• To circumvent the minefield is to neglect the person who somehow sleepwalked their way to its center.
  — Joseph Lezza, Longreads, 30 Mar. 2023
• For each of the AI control gambits, the sentient AI could deviously try to circumvent them.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2022
• Any Russian with a modicum of tech smarts can circumvent Kremlin efforts to starve Russians of fact.
  — Frank Bajak and Barbara Ortutay, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Mar. 2022
• Netanyahu will need to walk a high wire, circumventing any grudges that Trump may still harbor and moving adeptly to bring their goals into alignment.
  — Shalom Lipner, Foreign Affairs, 25 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 29 Dec 2024