Synonyms for shy away from
shy away from

Princeton's WordNet

1. shy away fromverb

   avoid having to deal with some unpleasant task

   "I shy away from this task"

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How to use shy away from in a sentence?

1. Avril Haines:

   To be effective, the DNI must never shy away from speaking truth to power -- even, especially, when doing so may be inconvenient or difficult, to safeguard the integrity of our intelligence community, the DNI must insist that, when it comes to intelligence, there is simply no place for politics ever.

2. Alberto Lammers:

   He's not going to shy away from hitting Trump, but that's just not his only platform.

3. Jared Bednar:

   We set high expectations, i don’t think we should shy away from trying to achieve them, and the Presidents’ Trophy is one of them.

4. Noura Hussein:

   People shy away from this conversation in Sudan, it's a taboo, i hope that people will now feel comfortable to speak about to their parents and grandparents about it.

5. President Barack Obama:

   I want us to be able, when we walk out this door, to say we couldn't think of anything else that we didn't try to do. That we didn't shy away from a challenge because it was hard. That we weren't timid or got tired or somehow thinking about the next thing, because there is no next thing, this is it.