"Tell me, uh-" He avoided my name.

It startled me a little to hear him say her name, he avoided her name if he could; saying it, or hearing it.

Marion avoided his name, avoided the subject: shrunk from the least allusion to it, with evident distress.

No mention was made of Prince Ivan; we avoided his name by a sort of secret mutual understanding.

The society renamed itself in 2000 to avoid its cumbersome former name and honour its greatest benefactor.

If I avoided his name entirely, it would look suspicious.

"One individual, white male," she began, avoiding Silva's name lest Patsy or the girls should hear in such a manner.

Why I avoided his name, why I never mentioned him.

You couldn't avoid his name.

It was only the Other, whose name Wood had been avoiding even in his thoughts, that made him worry now.