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:

In Morton's hands, Monica's is the same old tale of female victimization, but--just as she did before the Senate, thereby helping to forestall impeachment--she manages to shift the blame.
The reigning consensus after day three is that the House did a surprisingly good job, and the burden now shifts to the Clinton defense team to forestall witnesses.
With Rubin's help, Clinton managed to forestall a Mexican financial collapse in 1995, which posed an underappreciated threat to the U.S. economy's recovery, then in its fifth year.
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.
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.