PRECLUDE in a Sentence

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15 example sentences for PRECLUDE, such as:

1. Their move does not preclude others from investing.
2. We try to preclude any possibility of misunderstanding.
3. Age alone will not preclude him from standing as a candidate.
4. But for the moment his sense of relief was so great as to preclude all other feelings.
5. The attachment he felt to Anna precluded in his heart every need of intimate relations with others.

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 Meanings and Examples of PRECLUDE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
preclude
 v.  make impossible, as by action taken in advance; prevent; eliminate
Classic Sentence:
1  Javert remained silent for an instant as though collecting his ideas, then raised his voice with a sort of sad solemnity, which did not, however, preclude simplicity.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—HOW JEAN MAY BECOME CHAMP
2  From a meteorological point of view, these cold winds possessed this peculiarity, that they did not preclude a strong electric tension.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM ...
3  But for the moment his sense of relief was so great as to preclude all other feelings.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In III
4  Yet let it not be inferred from this that our hero's character had grown so blase and hard, or his conscience so blunted, as to preclude his experiencing a particle of sympathy or compassion.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER XI
5  An union of a different tendency, and precluding the possibility of the other, was soon to be formed in their family.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 50
6  But Prince Vasili interrupted him in the special deep cooing tone, precluding the possibility of interrupting his speech, which he used in extreme cases when special persuasion was needed.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I
7  And his agitation precluded further speech; he advanced hastily to the entrance, where I made way for him to pass.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
8  The attachment he felt to Anna precluded in his heart every need of intimate relations with others.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 21
9  These convictions must unquestionably have their own pain, and severe was its kind; but they precluded that pain which Lady Russell would suffer in entering the house again, and returning through the well-known apartments.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
Example Sentence:
1  Age alone will not preclude him from standing as a candidate.
2  Their move does not preclude others from investing.
3  We try to preclude any possibility of misunderstanding.
4  The fact that your application was not successful this time does not preclude the possibility of you applying again next time.
5  The fact that the band was already booked to play in Hollywood on New Year's Eve would preclude their accepting the New Year's Eve gig in London.
6  Miss Temple had always something of serenity in her air, of state in her mien, of refined propriety in her language, which precluded deviation into the ardent, the excited, and the eager.