The subject had been carefully avoided by both up until now.

However, I had carefully avoided telling him about my most recent dream.

During dinner they all carefully avoided talking about the scene in the police station.

He carefully avoided looking at Danny and so did everyone else in the room.

She put it back again without a word, carefully avoiding Susan's eyes.

The rest of the evening - he had come for dinner - we carefully avoided one another's eyes.

"To carefully avoid being killed before returning to release me."

It was as if instead of drawing attention now, they were being carefully avoided.

Last night, in a moment of caring, they had carefully avoided the word.

She took a deep breath and carefully avoided eye contact.