PREVENT in a Sentence

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353 example sentences for PREVENT, such as:

1. A stumble may prevent a fall.
2. My only idea was to prevent the woman from speaking.
3. Learn from the mistakes of others and prevent your own.
4. This will prevent them from looking much in our direction.
5. I'm trying to prevent the reversion of my garden to nature.

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 Meanings and Examples of PREVENT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
prevent
 v.  keep from happening or arising; make impossible
 v.  stop (someone or something) from doing something or being in a certain state
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  This did not prevent his shedding tears at the well-acted scenes.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XXII
2  , at the age of eighty, held himself erect and smiling, which did not prevent him from being a bad bishop.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—WHAT HE BELIEVED
3  There was too much ignorance in Jean Valjean, even after his misfortune, to prevent much vagueness from still lingering there.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR
4  A whitish speck flattened against the rock does not prevent the condor from soaring aloft.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—THE WISDOM OF THOLOMYES
5  Girls are incurable on the subject of marriage, and all that we wise men can say will not prevent the waistcoat-makers and the shoe-stitchers from dreaming of husbands studded with diamonds.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—THE WISDOM OF THOLOMYES
6  In the first place, there is one improvement which these gentlemen of the police ought to make, and that is, to prevent prison contractors from wronging poor people.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WIT...
7  Madeleine, and before he could prevent her he felt her grasp his hand and press her lips to it.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WIT...
8  It was in vain that Thenardier sought to conceal himself in the branches; he could not prevent the man seeing him.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER X—HE WHO SEEKS TO BETTER HIMSELF MAY RENDER HIS S...
9  This wall, however, did not absolutely prevent further progress; it was a wall which bordered a transverse street, in which the one he had taken ended.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—TO WIT, THE PLAN OF PARIS IN 1727
10  These voices had this strange characteristic, that they did not prevent the building from seeming to be deserted.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE BEGINNING OF AN ENIGMA
11  The hut was, in fact, so well hidden behind the ruins, and so cleverly arranged to prevent it being seen, that Jean Valjean had not perceived it.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IX—THE MAN WITH THE BELL
12  This will prevent them from looking much in our direction.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—WHICH TREATS OF THE MANNER OF ENTERING A CONVEN...
13  Paris drinks a million litres of water a day, but that does not prevent it from occasionally beating the general alarm and ringing the tocsin.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—ECCE PARIS, ECCE HOMO
14  Revery does not prevent a cab from passing by, nor the dreamer from taking note of that cab.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—BLONDEAU'S FUNERAL ORATION BY BOSSUET
15  He took good care not to become useless; having books did not prevent his reading, being a botanist did not prevent his being a gardener.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IV—M. MABEUF
Example Sentence: (143 in 10 pages)
16  Some people think drinking in moderation can prevent heart disease.
17  Early identification of a disease can prevent death and illness.
18  The packaging must provide an effective barrier to prevent contamination of the product.
19  A stumble may prevent a fall.
20  Learn from the mistakes of others and prevent your own.
21  We will in addition work for a global ban on chemical and biological weapons and stronger controls to prevent proliferation of ballistic missiles.
22  My only idea was to prevent the woman from speaking.
23  She took out an injunction to prevent the press publishing the information.
24  She is deaf, but refuses to let her disability prevent her from doing what she wants to do.
25  This may help to maintain the gains you've made and to prevent backsliding.
26  Thomas had a mission, to destroy the missile and prevent the shapechanger from carrying out his criminal activities.
27  Ignorance and superstition prevent them from benefiting from modern medicine.
28  They are only doing what is necessary to prevent wholesale destruction of vegetation.
29  I'm trying to prevent the reversion of my garden to nature.
30  MPs were urged to amend the law to prevent another oil tanker disaster.