forestalling

How To Use forestalling In A Sentence

• Chris looked to interrupt, but Sam held up a hand, forestalling him.
• The very idea made her heart race, but he raised a finger, forestalling her outburst.
• The groom, who had a roguish side, pulled Alison into a showy clasp, and the priest stepped back and led the quick applause for the couple, forestalling the biddies who would later complain that the ceremony had lacked dignity.
• He reached to touch me and I pulled back a little, forestalling him.
• 'Prevent,' now used in the sense of 'hinder,' seems in this line to have something of its older meaning, viz., to anticipate (in which case 'forestalling' would be proleptic). Milton's Comus
• In addition, thanks to medicine's success in curing disease and forestalling death, it is not clear that we haven't produced a culture in which death is even more unacceptable and more feared than ever before.
• Such moves, he said, could further provoke Russia at a time when the United States needs help from Moscow on other more pressing matters such as forestalling the nuclear ambitions of Iran and North Korea. News on www.kyivpost.com
• Or you can advance seemingly strongly but with a reserved spirit, forestalling him with the reserve.
• It was thought wrong for anyone to purchase goods outside of the regular market ( "forestalling") or to purchase them in larger quantities than necessary ( "engrossing"). Early European History
• Setting the official yuan-dollar exchange rate at a record high signals a commitment to letting the currency rise, forestalling destabilizing capital flight.