Never one to shirk from a challenge, I replied: Some friends of mine decided to remodel their kitchen.    From Wordnik.com.  [November 2003] Reference

First and foremost - tell a time travel story that does not shirk from a confrontation with the paradoxes.    From Wordnik.com.  [MIND MELD: Who are Your Literary Influences in the Ongoing Conversation of Science Fiction?] Reference

And then we kind of shirk off in the corner when we gain 20 pounds back.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 8, 2009] Reference

Outsiders don't always take SSHRC (always pronounced "shirk") as seriously as SSHRC would like.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-10-01] Reference

Apparently 'shirk' means a bit more than just blowing off classes, work deadlines or even going to worship.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dohiyi Mir] Reference

In this specific ayah, could 'Adaawah represent enmity towards the mushrikoon while the baghdaa represent anger towards' shirk '?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arabic Gems ~ جواهر العربية] Reference

I can't shirk it now, just because pay-day's come.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hermit of Far End] Reference

Still, Frank was not the one to shirk bad tidings.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Airplane Boys among the Clouds or, Young Aviators in a Wreck] Reference

It reverses the order of matters to shirk this duty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference

"They'll shirk, and then I have no sympathy for them.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Examining PETA’s Prez] Reference

Some young men shirk everything that requires effort or labor.    From Wordnik.com.  [The True Citizen, How to Become One] Reference

When a man's commander calls him to duty, it's no time to shirk.    From Wordnik.com.  [One More Ride On The Space Shuttle (Simulator)] Reference

Those who shirk from facing trouble find that trouble comes to them.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success] Reference

Continue to shirk responsibility but in a way that isn't easily questioned.    From Wordnik.com.  [Your Horoscope] Reference

We have duties to others and duties to ourselves; and we can shirk neither.    From Wordnik.com.  [US Presidential Inaugural Addresses] Reference

"Ideala won't shirk her duty because it is hard and unpalatable," I answered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ideala] Reference

The strain brings out the strength there is, but shirk it and we have weakness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Men in the Making] Reference

Mildred could not shirk the most important task that had yet been asked of her.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Red Cross Girls with the Russian Army] Reference

You're not going to shirk a last liquor with a comrade of forty years 'standing!'.    From Wordnik.com.  [VC — A Chronicle of Castle Barfield and of the Crimea] Reference

To survive as producers, companies sometimes shirk their welfare responsibilities.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Our American Dream Unraveled] Reference

I am not one of those who shirk a duty, whatever the peril be in accomplishing it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Rather Sarah would do as she pleased and shirk the consequences wherever possible.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rosemary] Reference

Now, I'll leff you hire you 'time, an' gwo down ter Newbern, an 'shirk fur you'seff.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

More than anyone else, he said, investigating judges cannot shirk their responsibilities.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Spain, A Crusading Judge Opens Old Wounds] Reference

You have been a good son to me, and I can truly say that I have never known you to shirk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories Worth Rereading] Reference

He knew he couldn't win, but he believed that to stay out would be to shirk a responsibility.    From Wordnik.com.  [SIX MEN AND A DONKEY] Reference

It came to her slowly but surely in the hours of her recovery that no good ever comes to those who shirk.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Girl Scouts at Home, or, Rosanna's Beautiful Day] Reference

He must pound into him again and again the realization of life which he himself had been tempted to shirk.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seventh Noon] Reference

The situation was a critical one, but Steve's was not a nature to shirk responsibilities or shun sacrifices.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gentle Art of Cooking Wives] Reference

He's an awful hard master, though, -- likes to shirk, an 'makes 'em lug round all his baggage an' chicken-fixin's.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864] Reference

I will be Thy faithful servant, I will be an obedient son, I will learn my lessons well at school and never shirk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christmas Light] Reference

There was no use for him to try to blind himself to the fact that he loved this girl -- that was but to shirk the question.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seventh Noon] Reference

I did not shirk any of the other expeditions nor the garrison duty, but always marched with the foremost and retreated among the last.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Orations of Lysias] Reference

If every creature has his task to perform, and if it is a crime to shirk it, what culprits are the babes who die on the nurse's breast!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

This condition the President remedied by executive action, at the same time seeing to it that the shirk and the dawdler received no mercy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Theodore Roosevelt and His Times] Reference