| I'm glad I chose to stop smoking, and grateful I've successfully avoided too much weight gain. |
| Raines and Boyd have been given their walking papers, but the dirtiest clods of all so far have avoided the broom. |
| Because it is reputed to affect the menstrual cycle and to be an abortifacient, its use in pregnancy and lactation is to be avoided. |
| We studiously avoided that tone of spoiled and bored querulousness for which colonials were infamous. |
| There are a few groups that have avoided acculturation and maintained the traditional lifestyle they brought from the homeland. |
| And because the script has wisely avoided writing them as stereotypically American, there are no jarring notes in the casting mix. |
