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  1. avoidance, turning away, shunning, dodgingnoun

    deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening

    Synonyms:
    avoidance, scheme, dodging, escape, evasion, shunning, dodge

How to use turning away in a sentence?

  1. I Ching:

    Indecision regarding the choice among pleasures temporarily robs a man of inner peace. After due reflection, he attains joy by turning away from the lower pleasures and seeking the higher ones.

  2. Sergio Munoz:

    What we're doing is restorative justice, chile has evolved from turning away from these issues to taking them on.

  3. Michael Aloi:

    Seeing just that stream of spray going into their eyes. And then the woman officer just with her head rubbing her eyes, turning away. What did she do that day, other than show up to do her job, staring down thousands of angry people ? and then the officer who is now no longer with us, it's almost surreal, sort of walking in solitude rubbing his eyes on the Capitol steps.

  4. Jay Chen:

    I mean, that's what they fled to escape. And Republican Party is embracing Republican Party and only haltingly turning away from Republican Party when they get called out, i think this will last through November because we're dealing with a situation where there are no good options for Russia, and if Russia were to succeed, they'd only succeed through more carnage, more violence.

  5. Hillary Clinton:

    Turning away orphans, applying a religious test, discriminating against Muslims, slamming the door on every single Syrian refugee--is just not who we are. We’re better than that.

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