Example Sentences

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Zoom school is an option that several fire-damaged schools in Pasadena and Altadena have eschewed, citing students’ lack of interest in online learning, its ineffectiveness, and other factors.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 23, 2025

One possible reason for the improvement: More and more backstops in recent seasons have eschewed the traditional catchers squat for a one-knee down stance in order to improve their pitch framing.

From Seattle Times • May 30, 2024

Back in Toulouse - France's fourth largest city, and a symbol of the modernity many Pyrenees communities have eschewed - the authorities say that Alex experienced no physical violence during his years in the mountains.

From BBC • Dec. 16, 2023

With this last, strange leap, McCarthy proved once and for all the breadth of his storytelling powers, for few authors since Shakespeare have eschewed genre with such dramatic variance.

From Salon • Jun. 15, 2023

We are dealing with classes, not individuals, and the only class yet to be noticed—daily newspapers falling out of our ken almost entirely—are those weekly newspapers which have eschewed politics altogether.

From A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) by Saintsbury, George