Words similar to forestall

Example sentences for: forestall

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

But these vouchers can't be the kind conservatives prefer, which are sharply limited in value so as to forestall real integration while directing tenants toward private-sector slums.
Some years elapsed before the British decided to establish a penal settlement in the land which Cook, when he took possession of it in 1770, primarily to forestall the French, named New South Wales.
In an age in which agents and publicists once again monitor a star's movements as religiously as they did in the 1950s--when Rock Hudson was forced to marry his secretary to forestall rumors that he was gay--Courtney was an imperious and slightly unhinged anti-celebrity, physically incapable of keeping her mouth shut.
Example: "It is dangerous for an American president to launch a military strike, however justified, at a time when many will conclude he acted only out of narrow self-interest to forestall or postpone his own impeachment" ( Wall Street Journal editorial).
He stayed on in the White House after Nixon resigned in hopes that Gerald Ford might nominate him ambassador to South Africa, a position that would allow him help forestall what he once called the "idiotic" idea of one-man, one-vote.