Example sentences for: eschew

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

  • In playgrounds across America, young basketball players eschew team play in favor of taking on defenders one-on-one, dunking, and "taking over the game" in crunch time, because they want to "be like Mike," as the advertisements say.

  • A story says companies now eschew insurance, favoring predictive models that help manage risk.

  • They urge Republicans to eschew Jeffersonian libertarianism and to take up the nationalist tradition of Alexander Hamilton, Henry Clay, and Theodore Roosevelt.

  • Oil money and federal largess--funds available either in full or at the most favorable matching rates for roads, military bases, parks, refuges, the Coast Guard, native affairs, and the full gamut of social-welfare benefits--allows the state to eschew both an income tax and a sales tax.

  • The French will continue to eschew back labels altogether, and the more conscientious American vintners will limit the label lingo to useful information about the winery's location, the soil in which the grapes were grown, and the climate.


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