Sentence for prevent | Use prevent in a sentence

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• Nothing can prevent the feat. (21)
• I am determined to prevent that. (10)
• And before he could prevent her she was gone. (8)
• Several citizens wanted to prevent my action. (12)
• I want to see him to prevent him from doing that. (10)
• Even three potatoes will prevent you from starving. (10)
• If there is anything you can do to prevent it, do it. (8)
• Not a minute must be lost to prevent further mischief. (10)
• It was put on her in spite of all effort to prevent him. (8)
• Do not accuse me; indeed, it was impossible to prevent it. (4)
• What is there to prevent its running out here to the East? (8)
• Miss Woodhouse, I hope nothing may happen to prevent the ball. (4)
• There was nothing to do but persuade, prevent, guard, hush up. (12)
• Be it only half a play, an act, a scene; what should prevent us? (4)
• Oakum should be stuffed behind all brick moulds to prevent this. (17)
• But had he still that anchorage, to prevent him slipping out to sea? (8)
• An attempt was made to shut the gate and prevent the troops from entering. (19)
• He wanted to prevent the possibility of a similar assault on his contentment. (12)
• And then, to prevent farther outrage and indignation, changed the subject directly. (4)
• Fanny, feeling all this to be wrong, could not help making an effort to prevent it. (4)
• Is the outer casing properly insulated to prevent the waste of heat into the cellar? (17)
• These should be well braced to prevent bulging when the concrete is tamped into them. (17)
• He went out into the larger office beyond, leaving Lapham helpless to prevent his going. (9)
• The hardest thing in life is to see a thing coming and be able to do nothing to prevent it. (8)
• What protection is there to prevent the chance passage of smoke into the warm air-chamber? (17)
• But I am myself uncertain what it is that these good souls dislike to have the army prevent. (7)
• He ought not to be melancholy like this and let anything prevent the sea from doing him good. (8)
• In the smaller cities he must needs exercise his ingenuity to prevent the action of the law. (21)
• Four weeks after the opening, it, too, was ablaze and no effort could prevent its total loss. (21)
• Thus, having ruined myself through anger, I allowed silly sensitiveness to prevent the repair. (10)
• I shall trouble you meanwhile to prevent his forming any other attachment when he comes to town. (4)
• She was just as determined when the morrow came, and went early, that nothing might prevent her. (4)
• My advice, therefore, is to make every effort to prevent matters being brought into court at all. (8)
• There was now nothing to prevent formal war, for France and England had recommenced hostilities. (19)
• Go before the magistrate…. Get Lord Elling to issue a warrant to prevent a breach of the peace. (10)
• Go before the magistrate…. Get Lord Elling to issue a warrant to prevent a breach of the peace. (22)
• Lady Jocelyn said she should not prevent Rose from writing to Evan, if she had the wish to do so. (10)
• She must have his consent to speak to her mother, and prevent a recurrence of these silly scenes. (10)
• We deadened the sound as much as we could, but it was impossible to prevent Richard from hearing. (10)
• However, all vertical joints of dormers with the roof should be carefully flashed to prevent leaks. (17)
• That night Boddy and Catman paced in the bedchambers, to prevent plotting and conspiracy, they said. (10)
• Batteries were thrown up, in spite of sallies made from the town by French and Indians to prevent them. (19)
• Adela silenced her suspicion, easily enough; but this did not prevent her taking a measure to satisfy it. (10)
• But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. (4)
• All they could do to prevent a peace being signed, the Hurons of Michilimackinac, allies of the French, did. (19)
• This is in order to give stability to the chimney and also prevent any fires in one flue spreading to others. (17)
• Karen had tried to prevent her mother from sending the letter, and the old woman had raised a terrible outcry. (12)
• But there has been a feud between the houses, and another brother, to prevent the marriage, kills the bridegroom. (3)
• This seed must be sown liberally to make allowances for loss in germination, and evenly to prevent patchy growth. (17)
• I wish you very happy and very rich, and by refusing your hand, do all in my power to prevent your being otherwise. (4)
• But he reproved her conduct, and even struggled with the kobold who tried to prevent his releasing her from the crab. (5)
• This extension of the chimney through the roof leaves a joint which must be covered with flashing to prevent leaking. (17)
• Hearths should extend in front of the fireplace at least 20 inches to prevent sparks from falling on the wooden floors. (17)
• This logic sufficed for the moment of its expression, but it did not prevent Alice from putting the case to Dan himself. (9)
• You have an understanding which will prevent you from receiving things only in part, and judging partially by the event. (4)
• But he pitied her, for he had sufficient imagination to prevent him from despising what he did not altogether comprehend. (10)
• I saw that she wanted to mortify me, and was resolved if I possibly could to Prevent her seeing that her scheme succeeded. (4)
• Le Loutre and his Acadians did their best to prevent the English landing and building the fort which became known as Fort Lawrence. (19)
• In order to prevent buckling, if they should swell with dampness, it is essential not to drive the joints between boards up too tight. (17)
• It was not yet too late perhaps to prevent real mischief; especially since it was agreed by everyone that the woman was no adventuress. (8)
• Our circumstances are the most modest; but in this great city it is possible to be alone and to prevent the interference of strangers. (12)
• But the proper pause had evidently not yet come, and now to prevent it the Countess strained her energies and tasked her genius intensely. (10)
• When the door of No.62 was opened he could distinctly hear her singing, and said so at once, to prevent any chance of being denied entrance. (8)
• Parental opposition could not prevent his studying music, and we find him at Prague, under Proksh, and, later on, taking lessons of Schumann. (3)
• Great skill is required to prevent collision or collapse on the abrupt course; and rough, uneven grounds make serious strain upon the vehicle. (21)
• The contractor would see to it that there were enough bidders at approximately his own figure to prevent suspicion on the part of the trustees. (13)
• The very want of such equality might prevent his perception of it; but he must know that in fortune and consequence she was greatly his superior. (4)
• He was determined to prevent it, if possible, though his mother, who equally heard the conversation which passed at table, did not evince the least disapprobation. (4)
• Rain and mud are its enemies, but their combined endeavors only infrequently prevent erection of tents, and the parade and exhibition which then infallibly follow. (21)

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