Example sentences for: postponing

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

  • On Monday, you plan a lavish party for Tuesday; when Tuesday arrives, you indulge your preference for anticipation by postponing the party till Wednesday.

  • Since higher interest rates take months to restrain economic expansion, postponing a hike is like waiting "to brake a runaway car until it is a few feet from the cliff's edge."

  • However, the court instructed the trial judge to take Clinton's official duties into account, which may allow him to keep postponing the trial.

  • When the question was posted, Missouri's governor had just said he'd wait to kill Darrell Mease until the pope left the room, postponing the execution, originally set for Jan.

  • Donald Dossey, a North Carolina behavioral scientist, has coined a term for it: "paraskevidekatriaphobia," which he derived from the Greek for fear of Friday the 13 th . He estimates that between 17 million and 21 million Americans suffer mild to severe anxiety or change their activities--performing rituals before leaving the house, calling in sick to work, or postponing flights or major purchases--and that businesses lose $750 million in revenues because of these fears.


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