From only five feet away, I could hardly avoid hearing this conversation.

He spoke so that you could not avoid hearing his conversation.

He muttered the words from the corner of his mouth, as if trying to avoid hearing them.

His brother started abruptly, taking a step backward as if to avoid hearing more.

They not only lack interest in the truth, but have sufficient power to avoid hearing it very often.

Then I usually hang up with more force than is necessary to avoid hearing the rebuttal.

I only just arrived and could not avoid hearing your final words.

As we look around us, we cannot avoid seeing and hearing about the problems of the city.

There's no way that the media could avoid hearing about this.

In the silence, I could no longer avoid hearing the One.