Words similar to stave

Example sentences for: stave

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

But just when you start to get impatient with the plodding, one-thing-after-another style of narration, there's a shocker that blows you into the movie's last act, and then a scene in which a couple of former antagonists figure out what stinks and join forces in an abandoned motel to stave off an army of bad guys.
But the evidence that mental exercise per se can increase cognitive reserve and stave off dementia is weaker.
Tartar control toothpastes can't remove tartar, but they can stave it off.
From my point of view, so long as there is no functioning social movement on the left, mainstream politics will continue to be a vast wasteland and my main criterion in voting will be how best to stave off the ultra-right lunatics.
It has been mocked as a meaningless gesture to stave off eager applicants and assuage the Russians.