Sample Sentences forpreclude (editor-reviewed)
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The first amendment precludes Congress from passing laws that create a state religion.precludes = prevents
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At length I would be avenged; this was a point definitively settled—but the very definitiveness with which it was resolved, precluded the idea of risk. (source)precluded = prevented (kept from arising)
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But for the moment his sense of relief was so great as to preclude all other feelings. (source)preclude = keep from arising
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While the plane had heaters to preclude this, it is possible the heaters were not activated.† (source)
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I use the word "enjoy" in two distinct senses, precluding, of course, the obsolete third.† (source)
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The problem of a forced boarding precludes that—makes it impossible?† (source)
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I knew I'd go to law school later the next year (my August graduation precluded a 2009 start to law school), so I moved home to save money.† (source)
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In the realm of totalitarian kitsch, all answers are given in advance and preclude any questions.† (source)
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Normally, their history precludes Lincoln from talking about death with Mary present.† (source)
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The scholarship would have obligated me to spend four years in military service after I finished college, precluding my chances to go on to medical school.† (source)
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After that he was downtown all day long, about the square, untalkative, dirty, with that furious and preclusive expression about the eyes which the people took for insanity: that quality of outworn violence like a scent, an odor; that fanaticism like a fading and almost extinct ember, of some kind of twofisted evangelism which had been one quarter violent conviction and three quarters physical hardihood.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ive" converts a word into an adjective; though over time, what was originally an adjective often comes to be used as a noun. The adjective pattern means tending to and is seen in words like attractive, impressive, and supportive. Examples of the noun include narrative, alternative, and detective.
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Miss Temple had always something of serenity in her air, of state in her mien, of refined propriety in her language, which precluded deviation into the ardent, the excited, the eager: something which chastened the pleasure of those who looked on her and listened to her, by a controlling sense of awe; and such was my feeling now: but as to Helen Burns, I was struck with wonder.† (source)
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—accomplished with an instantaneousness so complete as to preclude even the onset of pain.† (source)
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Wisdom precludes boldness.† (source)
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An union of a different tendency, and precluding the possibility of the other, was soon to be formed in their family.† (source)
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And his agitation precluded further speech; he advanced hastily to the entrance, where I made way for him to pass.† (source)
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