Sample Sentences forforestall (editor-reviewed)
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She spoke quickly to forestall any objections to her plan.forestall = prevent
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They have re-entered negotiations in an attempt to forestall bankruptcy.
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Two men stand at the door to forestall the sisters and keep them occupied if they chance to come along. (source)forestall = prevent or delay
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He mocked himself to forestall the mocking comments of anti-semites. (source)forestall = prevent
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He was pronounced dead at a little after four o'clock that afternoon by an observer who had witnessed the whole thing, alongside a video camera there to forestall any suggestion of wrongdoing. (source)
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She nodded almost imperceptibly and then opened her mouth, but Snape forestalled her. (source)forestalled = prevented (from doing something)
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In the past year, she'd worked herself to the point of exhaustion in an attempt to forestall the inevitable. (source)forestall = prevent or delay
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DESTINY COULD NO LONGER BE FORESTALLED! (source)FORESTALLED = prevented or delayed
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The answer was accepted and amplified by Rav Gershenson, thereby forestalling Danny's poised hand.† (source)
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It was empty distraction of the type that forestalls the pain of ordinary talk.† (source)
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Sweet Princes, what I did, I did in honour, Led by the impartial conduct of my soul; And never shall you see that I will beg A ragged and forestall'd remission.† (source)
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Would that forestall the prophecy? (source)forestall = prevent
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Frankly, if you had given us the courtesy of telling us about Andie, a lot of pain could have been forestalled. (source)forestalled = prevented
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I tried to envision the muscles along my neck relaxing, forestalling the headache I felt creeping on.† (source)
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He adopts its likings and its animosities, he hastens to anticipate its wishes, he forestalls its complaints, he yields to its idlest cravings, and instead of guiding it, as the legislature intended that he should do, he is ever ready to follow its bidding.† (source)
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but for my tears, The moist impediments unto my speech, I had forestall'd this dear and deep rebuke Ere you with grief had spoke and I had heard The course of it so far.† (source)
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