Sentence Examples:
I have ingeniously circumvented the crisis.
Nothing could circumvent her demoniac cunning.
He laid his plans cleverly to circumvent you.
Undefeated, could the Grand Fleet be circumvented?
It has circumvented lovers and annihilated romance.
None prowl'd for prey, none watch'd to circumvent.
We can also circumvent our chief opposing falsities.
The imps have circumvented us with a vengeance.
Let us try and circumvent the wily seal.
They're artful brutes, and very difficult to circumvent.
To thwart him he would have circumvented heaven and earth.
It will be good fun to circumvent the old rascal.
They circumvented her by getting him up on a weekday.
Deliberately had he permitted himself to be duped, circumvented, over-reached.
Ah, here was a way to circumvent those mischievous girls!
Often these portages were made to circumvent dangerous rapids or waterfalls.
He knew that the game of the conspirators had been circumvented.
Perchance they were seeking some method to circumvent the forest people.
He cheered his followers even while he was circumventing their mutiny.
I tried a dozen methods to circumvent the cornice, but failed.
I was circumventing Kurtz as though it had been a boyish game.
We lie in wait for, and circumvent each other by multiplied artifices.
For ball and cartridge; and now circumvent them if you can.
Why then is our brother circumvented, why is our hired servant defrauded?
There were ways, however, of evading inexorable law and circumventing base injustice.
She saw all possibilities of a legitimate meeting relentlessly and effectually circumvented.
In alternate curves and graceful sallies, they pursue and circumvent each other.
"How were you able to circumvent the disaster that so nearly befell me?"
If they attack a spring, they try to circumvent it by some circuitous route.
Instead, he moved to circumvent the glazed gully from its other side.
She set about to unmask his real intentions and to circumvent his hypocrisy.
To lie, to deceive, to circumvent even the basest of mankind was odious to him.
We will circumvent those Indian devils yet, and bring Dan safe into camp.
In some way or other she would contrive to circumvent the discovered villain.
He had a faith in prayer that no mere reasoning could obstruct or circumvent.
And let no man despise a widow, circumvent a ward, defraud his neighbor.
He shamefully circumvented and took me by surprise, and carried everything as he chose.
In nine months he had done nothing: no quibbling could circumvent that deadly fact.
It seems alive, and as if it hovered round you to maze you and circumvent you.
This plot, however, was circumvented and the instigators of the crime were punished.
Cicero, greatly depressed, lingered in the porch, wondering how to circumvent the dragon.
How then were our lads to circumvent the rascals and check their ruinous work?
He took an instant to circumvent my trap and come blandly out the other side.
As we turned into the shrubbery path, I attempted to circumvent him in another way.
Gracefully the little slave girl eluded the boys; slyly she circumvented their attacks.
He had not sought so much to dissipate thought as to circumvent it by substitution.
Mark asked at last, his agile mind already seeking means to circumvent the snare.
As to life and manners, he circumvents no man, overreaches no man, does violence to no man.
Then he found that he had circumvented one obstacle only to be hampered by another.
There is no way of circumventing the dreamer so subtle as to flatter his business qualities.
Abhorred and circumvented as he was, old master, having the power, very easily took revenge.
That naturally only piqued the boy to try to circumvent him in every possible way.
They omit no precaution, and it is almost impossible to circumvent the vigilance of their sentries.
Even then we have to consider the special room and how best to circumvent its idiosyncrasies.
Clayton must have thought to circumvent him, wade out and around till he struck the cliff.
The inspector he regarded as a natural enemy, who was to be circumvented by much guile.
The strife of each, at first, was to circumvent the other in purchasing the Indian title.
He had been slyly circumvented, and that was irritating, however necessary the repairs had been.
To the credit of the "Pauper Province" be it said, it is not easy to circumvent a Punjabi.
There was, in his opinion, no immorality in circumventing the Eighteenth Amendment whenever and wherever possible.
She will console it and teach little artifices, by which it may evade or circumvent them.
Nature is strong, and she manages to circumvent, to a certain extent, the obstructive devices of man.
One client who insisted on bringing an unseemly action was circumvented by Lincoln in an amusing manner.
He circumvented everything, and pursued every one with implacable ferocity, who was likely to withstand him.
We shall circumvent the barbarians with treachery, we shall fall on them unawares, and destroy them.
It is urgent to relieve the pain and throbbing and to circumvent the dangers of a spreading infection.
We shall also know how to circumvent the scandalous heretic with all his adherents and followers.
They were a knowing and a cunning set, those sorcerers; very hard to overcome, cajole, or circumvent.
To be circumvented by cunning must ever be the fate, but never the disgrace, of the artless.'
It seemed right good fortune that he had overheard their plans, but how could he circumvent them?
The Heavens must be persecuted and circumvented, and this must be done by the ruin of man.
No matter how impracticable it might appear to others, he invariably perceived a means to circumvent its difficulties.
All guile and intrigue, the possum can circumvent even Uncle Remus himself by his crafty diplomacy.
They had shut the doors of most reputable theaters against him, and he had circumvented them.
Luna's assumption that she was ready to enter into a conspiracy to circumvent and frustrate the girl.
Todd and his shop to take care of each other, while we take an effectual means of circumventing him.
He had to surpass the deer in swiftness and the lion in strength, or devise means to circumvent them.
This way and that the masterly woman twisted in search of a means to circumvent her position.
Forbes, we must try and circumvent the wily Chinese by other methods than torture and imprisonment.
The trappers circumvented their foes by setting the traps after nightfall and lifting the game before daybreak.
To chase them was to pursue the wind, and to circumvent them was to detain water with a sieve.
I have but one thought now and that is to see him circumvent jelly cones as he circumvented wasps.
He could in no way assist himself in circumventing the man's villainy by keeping his suspense to himself.
The ostrich can run faster than any horse, but it is quite easy to circumvent any charging bird.
It was my hard fate to come athwart an obstacle which could not be circumvented, but must be broken.
He thought again of the years of profits that lay just ahead, if only English control could be circumvented.
She had committed some imprudence; what, he must find out before he took any steps to circumvent these slanders.
The sly approaches, the astute negotiations, the lying and the circumventing... for the love of beauty, you know.
They always have a hungry look and habitually wear a grin of fiendish glee at having circumvented an adverse fate.
Some assented with real satisfaction; the rest readily acquiesced in what they had laid so sure a plan to circumvent.
Leger, discovered a horse called Rush with powers of running unknown to the sporting clique he desired to circumvent.
If I had not circumvented him, the scoundrel would have imprisoned your husband, and another dear friend of mine.
On our plantations we no longer dread the chestnut blight, since we can usually circumvent it by this method.
We are waiting to find whether the Swiss will suffer themselves to be circumvented by the artifices of Ulysses.
An American always plots against labor, and, in this instance, he takes the most effectual course to circumvent it.
Surely their cleverness would circumvent the restrictions framed by these gamblers on the chances of life and death.
He regarded Peaks as a horrible ogre, whose only mission in the ship was to persecute and circumvent him.
The fact is, the more I think of it the more pleased I am at the idea of circumventing this hypocrite.
What use is a home in a place where a man is cramped and circumvented in every big thing he attempts?
We want just such scheming devils as he to help us devise ways and means to circumvent these temperance men.