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"Avert" in a Sentence (16 examples)
Skillful diplomacy helps to avert war.
No one can avert death.
Climate scientists say we need to avert an additional 2-degree temperature increase to avoid the most catastrophic impacts of climate change.
Aliens had the power to avert war on Earth.
Pliny the Elder wrote that rye is a very poor food and only serves to avert starvation. This proves that grains were never considered fit for human consumption.
'On with the image to its home', they cried, / 'and pray the Goddess to avert our woe'.
And lifting on the shore / his hands, Anchises doth the gods adore. / "O Heaven!" he cries, "avert these threats; be kind / and stay the curse, and vex with plagues no more / a pious folk."
The European Union is calling on video streaming services to limit providing programs in high-definition to avert an internet crash.
The European Union is calling on video streaming services to limit providing programs in high-definition to avert an internet crash that could be triggered by extremely heavy usage because of the coronavirus pandemic.
We need to act now if we want to avert disaster.
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I averted my eyes while my friend typed in her password.
When atheists and profane persons do hear of so many discordant and contrary opinions in religion, it doth avert them from the church.
How can the danger be averted?
Till ardent prayer averts the public woe.
Indeed, there was some highly questionable jiggery-pokery with couplings and continuous brakes in this agreeable story, which featured Moore Marriott as an old driver who averts a disaster on his last run.
Cold and averting from our neighbour's good.
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