defer

How To Use defer In A Sentence

• We want to defer the exorbitant, latter-day costs of all that energy binging, masquerading as democracy "preachifying"? Alec Baldwin: It's Time To Suck It Up And Pay Our Bill
• The department deferred the decision for six months.
• And like past challenges to civilization, such barbarism thrives on Western appeasement and considers enlightened deference as weakness, if not decadence.
• One option could be to defer payment until the owner dies and the house is sold. Times, Sunday Times
• The decision has been deferred by the board until next month.
• He said the national executive agreed to defer the election to October 2, two weeks later than the original date of September 18.
• There is no chance that deflationary pressures brought on by collapsing commodity prices will persuade consumers to defer spending. Times, Sunday Times
• Instead, he underplays and it's a joy to watch him assume just the right mask of deferential blandness to manage his Colonel.
• You had to rebush the rod if the slack was excessive, or rebore the big end if it was split - all of which you hoped could be deferred until the entire affair had to be dismantled for white-lead testing.
• Shizuko is a famous tango dancer and deferential wife, who is kidnapped by yakuza as payment for her businessman husband's debts.