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Example sentences for: avert

How can you use “avert” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

But while Eleanor's agenda looks separatist--women-only press conferences, an attempt to avert World War II through a Lysistrata -style "women's strike for peace"--it also succeeds in grafting onto Roosevelt's coalition new blocs of the hitherto-disenfranchised without which the New Deal would be impracticable.
Similarly, you're advised to avert your glance from the making of sausages, and laws, and presumably laws about the manufacture of sausages to be fried up in some restaurant that you won't be visiting.
Secretary-General Kofi Annan will arrive in New York today from Baghdad, bringing with him an agreement that may avert a second Gulf War.
Meanwhile, says the paper, in a last-ditch attempt to avert bombing, U.S. envoy Richard Holbrooke is still holding talks with Milosevic.
3) Unlike Ginsburg, they're willing to make nice with Kenneth Starr in order to avert an indictment of Lewinsky.