Sample Sentences for
shirk
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    Swish, smack! Whip crack! Batter and beat! Yammer and bleat! Work, work! Nor dare to shirk, While Goblins quaff, and Goblins laugh, Round and round far underground Below, my lad!  (source)
    shirk = avoid duty
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    He did his work in the same slow obstinate way as he had done it in Jones's time, never shirking and never volunteering for extra work either.  (source)
    shirking = not doing a duty
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    He came between him and the shirks he should have punished.  (source)
    shirks = those who avoid duty
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    "Shirk," he said with a shrug, using the Arabic word for polytheism.†  (source)
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    There he had half killed an insubordinate young elephant who was shirking his fair share of work.  (source)
    shirking = not doing
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    You've shirked your responsibility all along, from the very beginning.†  (source)
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    There isn't a kinder soul in Avonlea and she never shirks her share of work.†  (source)
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    He carried himself differently in the company of his fellow supervisors, dropping his shirker's affect.†  (source)
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    MADAM HOOCH: Come on, now, I've no time for shirkers.†  (source)
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    He glides through life with that charming-Nicky grin, his beloved-child entitlement, his fibs and shirkings, his shortcomings and selfishness, and no one calls him on anything.†  (source)
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    He's a great patriot, but he's rough and tough on men who shirk their duty.†  (source)
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    Human troops shirking, I was sure—I'd never have allowed such a thing on any of my own shuttles.†  (source)
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    "His ear's ripped," he points out accusingly, like I've shirked my duty.†  (source)
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