Example Sentences

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"Labour women were averting their gaze as if a significant smell was marching past."

From BBC • Jan. 9, 2013

Falk tried, I was certain, to conceal a smile of joy at Roger's simplicity, and I saw that others in the boat were averting their faces.

From The Mutineers by Hawes, Charles Boardman

But that figure was grey, as though covered with dust … and moreover, the eyes … the eyes still gazed aside, as though they were averting themselves.

From A Reckless Character And Other Stories by Hapgood, Isabel Florence