Sentence example with the word 'circumvention'

circumvention

avoidance, deceiving, duck, equivocation, flimflam, frustration, mirage, passing the buck, shy, subterfuge, vision

Definition n. the act of evading by going around

Last update: July 5, 2015


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So utterly lost was he to all sense of reverence for the many marvels of their majestic bulk and mystic ways; and so dead to anything like an apprehension of any possible danger from encountering them; that in his poor opinion, the wondrous whale was but a species of magnified mouse, or at least water-rat, requiring only a little circumvention and some small application of time and trouble in order to kill and boil.   [Please select]

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Well, what can't be done by main courage, in war, must be done by circumvention.   [Please select]

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There had been times when circumvention by this son of Erin had been so masterly, so deft, so unexpected that Frank had felt like extending a congratulating hand.   [Please select]

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