SHUN in a Sentence

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For SHUN, below is one of 32 sentences:
Yet without power to kill, or change, or shun the fact; he likewise knew that to mankind he did long dissemble; in some sort, did still.

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 Meanings and Examples of SHUN
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
shun
 v.  avoid deliberately; keep away from
Classic Sentence: (23 in 2 pages)
1  Yet without power to kill, or change, or shun the fact; he likewise knew that to mankind he did long dissemble; in some sort, did still.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 41. Moby Dick.
2  Nevertheless, in the proper place we shall see that no knowing fisherman will ever turn up his nose at such a whale as this, however much he may shun blasted whales in general.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 91. The Pequod Meets The Rose-Bud.
3  It was seldom he got as fair treatment as from this last farmer, and so as time went on he learned to shun the houses and to prefer sleeping in the fields.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
4  I need hardly remind you that during the days of the retreat all boys are expected to preserve a quiet and pious demeanour and to shun all loud unseemly pleasure.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
5  It was most probable that it was because I had laid over the clamps of those doors garlic, which the Un-Dead cannot bear, and other things which they shun.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
6  It was remarked, however, that some of those who had been most intimate with him appeared, after a time, to shun him.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11
7  Then I remembered what the blind Theban prophet Teiresias had told me, and how carefully Aeaean Circe had warned me to shun the island of the blessed sun-god.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XII
8  You must be on your guard against her; you must shun her example; if necessary, avoid her company, exclude her from your sports, and shut her out from your converse.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
9  No; far from wishing to learn whither he has betaken himself, I should shun the possibility of meeting him as I would a wild beast.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 45. The Rain of Blood.
10  At that kind of meeting people would shun me.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: 3 She Goes Out to Battle against Depression
11  If anyone seeks a quarrel with you, shun it, were it with a child of ten years old.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 23 THE RENDEZVOUS
12  Every show of pride, therefore, a prince should shun as he would a rock, since to invite hatred without resulting advantage were utterly rash and futile.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XXIII.
13  Ethan was aware that, in regard to the important question of surgical intervention, the female opinion of the neighbourhood was divided, some glorying in the prestige conferred by operations while others shunned them as indelicate.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
14  Mrs. Hatch's MILIEU was one which he had once assiduously frequented, and now as devoutly shunned.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
15  After its first blunder-born discovery by a Dutchman, all other ships long shunned those shores as pestiferously barbarous; but the whale-ship touched there.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 24. The Advocate.
Example Sentence:
1  Wise men love truth, whereas fools shun it.
2  They wear simple clothes and shun modern contrivances.
3  However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names.
4  Cherishing his solitude, the recluse wants to shun the company of other human beings.
5  From that time forward everybody shunned him.
6  He is a person to be shunned.
7  She has shunned publicity since she retired from the theatre.
8  Because he switched from one party to another, his former friends shunned him as an apostate.
9  As I laid her down, I covered her ice-cold and clammy hand with mine: the feeble fingers shrank from my touch; the glazing eyes shunned my gaze.