Example sentences for: eschew

How can you use “eschew” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • I eschew the term homonym because it suffers from an inherent ambiguity: a homograph is, to lexicographers, at least, a word that is spelled the same as another but has a different etymology ( bear 1 animal/ bear 2 carry; bore 1 carried/ bore 2 drill/ bore 3 tire/ bore 4 tide wave); a homophone is a word that sounds exactly like another but is spelled differently ( bear/bare; bier/beer; bore/boar ).

  • If key recovery is adopted, terrorists are likely to eschew it in favor of unbreakable technology.

  • Again, scrupulous reporters eschew this question, focusing instead on public perception.

  • The early incompetence of the Gore campaign forced the candidate to eschew his ambivalence about politicking and come "to terms with his outer politician."

  • As readers of VERBATIM are aware, we give short shrift to the trappings of academia in our pages: we eschew footnotes (with rare exceptions) as well as bibliographies.


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