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Example sentences for: stave

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2) Republicans are helping the NRA stave off serious gun laws by pushing weaker restrictions riddled with loopholes.
Representatives of the Devil, naturally, do all they can to make that happen, while God's servants--among them Alan Rickman as the resonant and wearily fey "Voice of God," Salma Hayek as a slinky muse, and Chris Rock as the "Thirteenth Apostle" (the black one expunged from Scripture)--struggle to stave off Armageddon.
Tartar control toothpastes can't remove tartar, but they can stave it off.
The authors of the paper lean on these findings to suggest that marijuana acts on the brain as other drugs of abuse do, and that users who stop smoking marijuana might indulge in heroin, cocaine, or alcohol to stave off the unpleasantness of increased CRF in the amygdala.
But now that Gore is throwing elbows back in an effort to stave off Bradley's gains, the gentleman-scholar-statesman is quick to take offense.