Sample Sentences fordeterrent (editor-reviewed)
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How effective is the death penalty as an additional deterrent?deterrent = something that discourages something not wanted
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The steep fine served as a deterrent to careless parking.deterrent = something that discourages
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In theory, it's supposed to be electrified twenty-four hours a day as a deterrent to the predators that live in the woods — packs of wild dogs, lone cougars, bears — that used to threaten our streets. (source)deterrent = something that discourages something not wanted
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It was her personal signature as much as a deterrent to foul play or theft.† (source)
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One afternoon, she was tempted to steal a book from the class bookshelf, but frankly, the prospect of another corridor Watschen at the hands of Sister Maria was a powerful enough deterrent.† (source)
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I could see the thorns sticking out along every branch, hopefully a deterrent for anyone else approaching the woodshed.† (source)
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France armed Israel in its infancy, and without French help Israel would have never developed the nuclear deterrent that allowed it to survive in the hostile Middle East.† (source)
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Deterrence based on fear is a holdover from the Cold War.† (source)
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God has willed that this shall not be and we have at least a breathing space to set our house in order before this peril has to be encountered: and even then, if no effort is spared, we should still possess so formidable a superiority as to impose effective deterrents upon its employment, or threat of employment, by others.† (source)
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She would almost certainly hurt herself in the process, but that wasn't always much of a deterrent, I knew.† (source)
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Tanimoto read in the papers that the United States and the Soviet Union were steadily climbing the steep steps of deterrence.† (source)
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God has willed that this shall not be and we have at least a breathing space to set our house in order before this peril has to be encountered: and even then, if no effort is spared, we should still possess so formidable a superiority as to impose effective deterrents upon its employment, or threat of employment, by others.† (source)
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Judging from the fact that sixteen of the thirty expeditions on Everest last spring were climbing on the Nepalese side of the mountain, the high cost of obtaining a permit doesn't seem to have been a significant deterrent.† (source)
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And in cooperation with many of our allies, the United States is pursuing the Strategic Defense Initiative—research to base deterrence not on the threat of offensive retaliation, but on defenses that truly defend; on systems, in short, that will not target populations, but shield them.† (source)
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She has used them as deterrents to defend her throne.† (source)
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It was a good deterrent.† (source)
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