SHIRK in a Sentence

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12 example sentences for SHIRK, such as:

1. We in the Congress can't shirk our responsibility.
2. You have always some excuse or another for shirking work.
3. Just as he was going into the nursery he remembered what it was he had shirked facing.
4. And on both these days I had the restless feeling of one who shirks an inevitable duty.
5. It is probably some unpleasantness and some purple of this sort which the first man is desirous of shirking.

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 Meanings and Examples of SHIRK
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
shirk
 v.  avoid or neglect duty or responsibility; malinger
Classic Sentence:
1  But next morning I perceived clearly enough that my curiosity regarding the Palace of Green Porcelain was a piece of self-deception, to enable me to shirk, by another day, an experience I dreaded.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In VI
2  "Yes, looking at the sky, I thought that the dome that I see is not a deception, and then I thought something, I shirked facing something," he mused.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 8: Chapter 18
3  Just as he was going into the nursery he remembered what it was he had shirked facing.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 8: Chapter 18
4  And whenever she found Carreen on her knees when she should have been taking an afternoon nap or doing the mending, she felt that Carreen was shirking her share of the burdens.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
5  I don't know what else to tell yeh, Henry, excepting that yeh must never do no shirking, child, on my account.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
6  He did his work in the same slow obstinate way as he had done it in Jones's time, never shirking and never volunteering for extra work either.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter III
7  You have always some excuse or another for shirking work.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In COUNTERPARTS
8  It is probably some unpleasantness and some purple of this sort which the first man is desirous of shirking.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—THE "SPUN" MAN
9  And on both these days I had the restless feeling of one who shirks an inevitable duty.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In VI
Example Sentence:
1  We in the Congress can't shirk our responsibility.
2  If you shirk your responsibilities/duties now, the situation will just be that much harder to deal with next month.
3  Brian has a strong sense of duty; he would never shirk any responsibility.