Use "averting" in a sentence

1. He hung his head, averting her eyes

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2. The Emperor just smiled, averting eye contact to look at small device in this hand

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3. The flogger set down his instrument of torture and bowed reverently as fast as it would seem prudent, and then stepped completely away from the chained form of Philo, standing still and averting his gaze from the direction of the Patriarch

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4. The procrastinator lost his grin almost instantly and stared away, averting his eyes

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5. And that’s what’s probably cost Liz her life,” said Quarles, averting his gaze from Colling and with a deep sigh, holding his forehead with both hands

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6. It was not something any one was supposed to ever witness in his life, and Hilderich had seen it happen in slow, aggravating detail, before finally averting his red sore eyes

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7. “How do you feel?” was all he could think to ask, averting his eyes after another quick glance

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8. He had not looked away, but watched her for any sign of her feelings, while she only glanced quickly, averting his now more confident stare

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9. He gestured averting with his hand and laughed again

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10. - I am just fetching Municantir! she yelled to explain and gestured averting before she continued into the hall

11. He interrupted her by raising his hand, averting

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12. He took a step towards her, but she only backed the same and held up her hands averting before her

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13. My father looks momentarily stricken and then recovers himself, averting his glistening eyes and nodding

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14. “Oh,” I said while averting my gaze to the floor

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15. He dived his hands into his pockets (without averting his eyes away) and pulled out a scrunched up charm

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16. Closing her eyes and averting her face from the burning flash that she knew would follow, she threw the jar onto the hay-strewn floor with great force

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17. ” I said averting my eyes from his that seemed to be raging like the waves of the untamed ocean

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18. Benjamin stood stiffly to the side, still averting his eyes from

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19. “Did you get a picture?” Dagan asked without averting his stare from the entrance of another large building where a uniformed man stood smoking a cigarette

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20. ―What are you doing?‖ she said, averting her gaze to stare at the putative shelter

21. It had been obvious, throughout Siri’s career, that the international business community had no thoughts of making any contribution towards averting the ensuing environmental disaster, brought about by global warming and the consequential climate changes that were building in momentum

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22. As TBOS points out, the chances of averting a complete breakdown of out habitat and the ensuing extinction of the vast majority of life, including humanity, while the planet is burdened with the present urban population, is very small indeed, so small in fact as to be impracticable

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23. Composing the limbs as decently as I could, and averting my eyes from the pathetic, innocent looking sex, I wrapped it- him in an old blanket

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24. One of the actresses present that saw Nancy enter then turned her head away, clearly uneasy and averting her eyes

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25. Thus averting the threat of invasion and for the first time in history command of the air combined with strategic bombing decisively ended a military campaign

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26. After an hour and a half, Dave opened the door, pointedly averting his face, and whispered something to Lyons, who left with him

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27. averting his eyes to the carnage he created up ahead

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28. Vinny turned his head towards the barn averting his

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29. Vinny turned his head to the side averting his eyes and

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30. " She said quickly averting her eyes to check

31. Both Shomron and Eshkol stared at her with shock and disbelief for a moment, then walked out without another word, averting their eyes from hers

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32. SEALS had paid handsome dividends in averting a major terrorist attack on

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33. “Sorry, Scout, but you said to come in,” Kristen said, averting her eyes

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34. Life is not as unkind to the self-introspecting man as it is to a self-reflecting bull for it lends him the scope to contain the damages the vagaries of his habit occasions; but still, save a Gary Sobers, who said he never committed the same mistake twice, man fails to benefit from the let-offs of fate, and that only proves that man is more adept at thwarting the perils without but not at averting the banes within

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35. But he stopped her with a friendly hand on her thigh and averting his eyes from the short skirt looked her straight in the eyes, grinned, and said ‘it’s all looking a bit tight isn’t it?”

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36. At first the man shirked away in fear, averting his eyes and covering

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37. “No rush, It's all been taken care of,” said Mary, averting here eyes from Johnny's searching glances into the dark interior of the shack

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38. “That was inappropriate,” he said, averting his eyes

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39. ” I said quietly, averting my eyes

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40. He knelt to collect her gowns from the floor, averting his gaze as he did, but he’d already noticed the scratches on her

41. “Oh, I see,” the other mumbles, averting his eyes from those of his interlocutor, “I don't

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42. used to averting her gaze, not catching someone’s eyes lest she

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43. When Scott told her--whilst averting his own eyes--that it was a bit too magnificent for his tastes, she smiled and explained that it was an anamorphic piece

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44. She drew away from the thrust of his face with its great moustache, averting her own face as much as possible

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45. I was compelled, at this period, to leave Corsica on an important expedition; I reflected for a long time, and with the hope of averting some impending misfortune, I resolved that Benedetto should accompany me

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46. Averting his face quickly Bloom bends to examine on the halltable the spaniel eyes of a running fox: then, his lifted head sniffing, follows Zoe into the musicroom

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47. rival department of the measures that had been taken during the last ten years by that department for averting the disastrous conditions in which the native tribes were

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48. Gould, once more averting her head

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49. Monygham, you are running a terrible risk," she whispered, averting from his face her eyes, full of tears, for a short glance at the door of her husband's room

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50. Averting her nose, she flapped the reins smartly across the horse’s back and hurried him past and around the bend of the road

51. realized that her basque was open to the waist and her bare bosom and corset cover She could not speak, but seeing the direction of his eyes and their quick averting, she were showing

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52. At six o'clock he had already been long dressed, and had spent some of his wretchedness in prayer, pleading his motives for averting the worst evil if in anything he had used falsity and spoken what was not true before God

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53. We’re odd creatures, so intent on averting loss that we’re willing to risk losing even more to do so

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54. He seemed determined to be answered; and Fanny, averting her face, said, with a firmer tone than usual, "As far as I am concerned, sir, I would not have delayed his return for a day

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55. The physicians of the Carpathia were praised, as was Chief Steward Hughes, for work done in making the arrivals comfortable and averting serious illness

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56. Now Alexey Alexandrovitch intended to demand: First, that a new commission should be formed which should be empowered to investigate the condition of the native tribes on the spot; secondly, if it should appear that the condition of the native tribes actually was such as it appeared to be from the official documents in the hands of the committee, that another new scientific commission should be appointed to investigate the deplorable condition of the native tribes from the—(1) political, (2) administrative, (3) economic, (4) ethnographical, (5) material, and (6) religious points of view; thirdly, that evidence should be required from the rival department of the measures that had been taken during the last ten years by that department for averting the disastrous conditions in which the native tribes were now placed; and fourthly and finally, that that department explain why it had, as appeared from the evidence before the committee, from No

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57. We have the means of averting suspicion completely

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58. He had written a chapter the day before in which the officials of the upper classes got it hot for preventing him, as he expressed it, from averting the ruin towards which the present rulers of Russia were driving it, which simply meant that they had prevented his getting a better salary

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59. to-day, Catharine to-morrow, and the next day Pugatchov; to-day the insane King of Bavaria, to-morrow the Emperor William? Why should I promise this to men whom I know to be wicked or foolish, or men whom I know nothing at all about? Why should I, in the form of taxes, hand over to them the fruits of my labor, knowing that this money will be used to bribe officials, to support prisons, churches, and armies, to pay for the execution of evil acts destined for my oppression? In other words, why should I apply the rod to my own back? Why should I go on wasting my time, averting my eyes, helping to give a semblance of legality to the acts of wrong-doers, play a part in elections, and pretend to participate in the government, when I know perfectly well that the country is ruled by those who control the army? Why should I go into the courts and be a party to the infliction of tortures and executions upon my erring fellow-beings, knowing, if I am a Christian, that the law of love has been substituted for the law of vengeance, and if I am an educated man, that punishment, so far from reforming its victims, serves only to demoralize them? Why should I, in person or in substitute, go and kill and despoil, and expose myself to the dangers of war, simply because the key of the temple of Jerusalem happens to be in the keeping of one bishop rather than in that of another; because Bulgaria is to be ruled by one German prince instead of another; or because the privileges of the seal fishery are reserved for the English to the exclusion of the American merchants

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60. It would seem that, availing yourself of these circumstances, you might advantageously attack a weaker one and annihilate him, or at least oblige him to retreat, retaining in our hands an important part of the provinces now occupied by the enemy, and thereby averting danger from Túla and other towns in the interior

61. Above all, we have the inestimable consolation of knowing that the war in which we are actually engaged, is a war neither of ambition nor of vain glory; that it is waged, not in violation of the rights of others, but in the maintenance of our own; that it was preceded by a patience without example, under wrongs accumulating without end: and that it was finally not declared until every hope of averting it was extinguished, by the transfer of the British sceptre into new hands clinging to former councils; and until declarations were reiterated to the last hour, through the British Envoy here, that the hostile edicts against our commercial rights and our maritime independence would not be revoked; nay, that they could not be revoked without violating the obligations of Great Britain to other powers, as well as to her own interests

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