avert

How To Use avert In A Sentence

• If we want to avert a very deep recession it is absolutely vital that these psychological factors are reversed.
• [42] Of such ministers and counselors, the holy king said that they who were confounded and ashamed should remove themselves far from him: _Avertantur statim erubescentes, qui dicunt mihi, "Euge, euge! The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 25 of 55 1635-36 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing t
• I was relieved that we had averted yet another financial crisis .
• More sweat fell down his stubby chin as he tried to avert his eyes away from her steady gaze.
• An airliner uncontrollably gains altitude, leaving the crew with a race against time to avert tragedy and land safely. The Sun
• The gardener roared nearby on his machine, eyes rigidly averted. Somewhere East of Life
• She must avert her gaze from him for a moment or the tides that he was lashing about her would lift and carry her on their outsweep. A Pagan of the Hills
• They reduce the frequency and intensity with which the authorities must intervene as lenders of last resort to avert systemic crises.
• Loach's social-realist drama, written by his longtime collaborator Paul Laverty, is a distinctive, piercingly serious vision.
• There was widespread destruction on the island of Sant’ Elena, where an even larger disaster was narrowly averted by when the twister nearly struck a crowded vaporetto moored at a pontile. A Tornado in Venice