Words similar to averting

Example sentences for: averting

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

The Russians and American on board frantically hacked at wires and sealed off the leak, just averting death.
He negotiated a budget deal with Shas, an ultra-Orthodox party that controls a quarter of the coalition's parliamentary seats, thereby averting Shas' threatened withdrawal from the government.
Several terrorist operatives were detained by foreign governments, possibly disrupting operations in the Gulf and Italy and perhaps averting attacks against two or three U.S. embassies.
But Druids have other reasons for averting their eyes when the sun and the moon merge.
One way of averting this problem would be for CNBC or CNNfn to feature discussions among advocates of different approaches to understanding the market.