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How to use shun in a sentence

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The villagers pledged to keep away from liquor and also shun illicit distillers from their area.
They shun the marriage counselor and wastewater treatment and harm the conjugality of watershed love.
Is it a result of our liberation from the chains of domestic drudgery that so many women shun skirts these days?
If people on middle incomes continue to shun inner cities, those areas will face a bleak future.
Many business executives now shun the major airlines and favour the no-frills operators.
John Calvin's faith offers predestined salvation for a lucky few and requires adherents to work hard and shun ostentation.
In a position to shun the cash bribes of big business, he's now impervious to their threats.
Stoic, perseverant and disciplined, they are a proud people of few words who shun the limelight.
Tourists will continue to shun the disgusting stock of hotels that are being constructed.
Whether you welcome this prince of silly or shun him as a hopeless jester, on stage his outlandish world cannot fail to charm.
He has the rare ability to shun irrelevant waffle, to identify the important problems and produce important solutions.
If the hedge funds shun European junk, that dramatic shift could drive up rates on these securities even further.
So by claiming to shun public attention he evades confrontations and intensifies public curiosity.
People don't know what to do with their pain and so they shun them and they are then left alone in their pain.
It's a case of the more you attempt to avoid a public or shun publicity, the more it makes you enigmatic.
The stench from the river is so overpowering that even those desperate for water would shun it.
Tracy then began to shun bright colours, wearing only black, sometimes lined with deep purple or very occasionally red.
Magnard himself was a natural contrapuntist, often seeming wilfully to shun the blandishments of orchestral colour.
And those who shun the great sins and indecencies, and whenever they are angry, they forgive.
For example, carnivorous mammals' descendants that now shun meat include bamboo-eating pandas and termite-slurping aardwolves.
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Examples from Classical Literature
But that is not likely, for he never knew him, nor saw him, and Speyer will shun him as he would the plague.
He does not shun to be discerned in the evening of a tempestuous life, crippled with wounds aching and uncured.
The finical and fashionable may call the candid speaker a boar, and shun him.
For the hetairai did not shun the light of day, and were not restrained by the law.
I would not only shun every evil, but every appearance of evil, or what might be construed into an appearance.
Above all, shun the snares of women, for they are ever set for the foolish feet of the young.
What could be crueler than to shun someone who has dedicated his life to actually doing what Jesus taught us to do?
It is disrespectful to the inviter to shun any of her guests.
He is asked rather to shun anything that tends to polytheism.
To shun competition and responsibility is characteristic of abulia.
I have been early taught to shun all allusion to his memory.
It may shun, deprecate, disparage, but it never despises them.
It was remarked, however, that some of those who had been most intimate with him appeared, after a time, to shun him.
The majority of species of hornbill shun the vicinity of human beings.
I had the conviction that he could only regard me as a poor-spirited slave, wherefore I now went about to shun his presence and eschew his conversation.
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.
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.
See ye how dexterously they avail themselves of every cover which a tree or bush affords, and shun exposing themselves to the shot of our cross-bows?
Some say that Yao is shackled and hidden away, and that Shun has died in the fields.
Shun double-entendres, prurient jocosity, and pestiferous profanity, obscurant or apparent.
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