Example sentences for: postpone

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

  • Further work is needed to help physicians to understand their patients' views on hepatitis C. A recent study showed that persons with hepatitis C preferred to expedite periods of poor health, implying that they may be more likely to proceed with antiviral therapy and its attendant side effects than to delay treatment [ 19 ] . In contrast, the physicians in the current survey had a relatively high threshold for recommending treatment, which would lead them to postpone therapy in the majority of cases.

  • More Miscellany: NATO formally admitted Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic . The United States successfully pressured its allies to postpone a similar decision on Romania and Slovenia until 1999.

  • Better to take the bitter medicine now--to let unemployment rise, to force companies to purge themselves of redundant capacity--than to postpone the day of reckoning.

  • The New York Times , Los Angeles Times , and Washington Post each lead with the latest development in the White House's attempt to stave off a Senate defeat of the comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty--President Clinton's submission of a letter to Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott asking him to postpone his planned floor vote on the treaty.

  • A related story says Newt Gingrich was right to postpone tax cuts and does not deserve the blame that's being heaped upon him.


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