Example sentences for: eschewed

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

  • Now, critics declare him a cerebral modernist who eschewed convention: He used "a nineteenth-century vocabulary but speaks with a twentieth-century voice" (Alex Ross, The New Yorker ). The revisionists rate him one of the century's great composers.

  • Everybody notes that with the impeachment trial set to start Thursday, President Clinton eschewed the usual joint press conference alongside visiting Argentine President Carlos Menem.

  • In March, the ROT split into two factions--the smaller one, led by McLaren, advocated an alignment with militias and plotted a violent strategy to remove the federal government from Texas, the other eschewed violence and dissociated itself from McLaren.

  • An article on Oliver Stone says he has eschewed political diatribe in his forthcoming film U-Turn and his planned sequel to Mission: Impossible . Instead, Stone seeks mainstream clout.

  • So, golfers, the next time you are in Ireland or Scotland, ponder why the Gaels used such combustible terms for heather and eschewed the features like bells and crosses that impressed themselves on Anglo-Saxons.


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