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Example sentences for: deterred

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

While Johnson's survival deterred members of Congress from considering impeachment in Watergate, Nixon's ouster has had the opposite effect, emboldening Clinton's foes.
Not that the delay has deterred Dexter.
Throughout the 1990s, this message has deterred pro-life politicians from trying to ban abortion.
Clarke and Black replied that the CIA's ongoing disruption activities were "taking the offensive" and that Bin Ladin could not be deterred.
Mixed (high status-low status) marriages can be effectively deterred in a society where the children of such marriages are relegated to the lowest status of all.