Averted
"Averted" in a Sentence (12 examples)
He averted his gaze.
A catastrophe has been averted.
She averted her eyes.
He averted his eyes.
When I want to be sure I remember where I have put an object, I mustn’t do it with averted eyes, but while putting it away look at it so intently, as if I were taking a photo.
That danger can be averted.
Meanwhile, with beaten breasts and streaming hair, / the Trojan dames, a sad and suppliant train, / the veil to partial Pallas' temple bear. / Stern, with averted eyes the Goddess spurns their prayer.
Tom averted his eyes.
Tom quickly averted his eyes.
I quickly averted my eyes.
It will not come as a surprise that Paul experiences much oppositional, averted anger, which is partly an adequate answer to the intrusions he has experienced and partly makes[…]
[...] : for Mompelgard, two barbels endorsed with tails averted, in a field gules : for Heydenheim, a Saracen's head, with a kind of hussar's cap gules[…]
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