How to Use forestall in a Sentence

forestall

verb

• He forestalled critics by offering a defense of the project.
• His comments were meant to forestall criticism of his proposal.
• Negotiations failed to forestall the conflict.
• How much will that help to forestall the threat of famine?
  — Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2021
• If rates stay that low, the U.S could could forestall a calamity for a few years.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 5 Mar. 2021
• To fail to pick up a rock, when the other caveman picked up a rock, did not forestall the arms race.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 26 July 2023
• That might help end the current pandemic and forestall the next one.
  — Jon Cohen, Science | AAAS, 15 Apr. 2021
• The goal of Putin and his allies is to forestall popular protest among those tired of Putin’s long reign.
  — Regina Smyth, The Conversation, 16 Jan. 2020
• To forestall a colossal sell-off, the Russian stock market was closed all of last week.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 5 Mar. 2022
• Not for outdoor use, mind you, but for a much more noble cause: to forestall the climate crisis.
  — Corey Buhay, Outside Online, 30 Jan. 2022
• The Nets changed the colors on the court and on their jerseys to the franchise’s vintage blue and red, as if to forestall a funeral by putting away the dress blacks.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 26 Apr. 2022
• And none of these moves can forestall an invasion, if Putin has already made up his mind.
  — Adam Entous, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022
• But first, to forestall any questions: No, Hank the Cowdog and subsequent recordings of the series are not ...
  — Sarah Schutte, National Review, 10 Apr. 2022
• At the same time, steady growth and hiring have forestalled a recession, which was widely predicted at the end of last year.
  — Christopher Rugaber, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2023
• That buildup was exactly the result Mr. Putin was trying to forestall.
  — New York Times, 17 Mar. 2022
• There is a sense within the industry that the bill’s passage has forestalled a greater disaster.
  — Nathan Taylor Pemberton, The New Yorker, 2 Apr. 2020
• The news prompted efforts in the United States to forestall any repeat of Ferdinand’s fate.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Apr. 2020
• If at least 41 aldermen vote to pass a single version of the map, that would forestall the referendum.
  — John Byrne, chicagotribune.com, 21 Jan. 2022
• By learning more about the problem up-front, the service tech is more likely to have the proper replacement parts in the truck, which could forestall a return trip.
  — Consumers’ Checkbook, SFChronicle.com, 31 July 2020
• The federal government stepped in to rescue the other big banks and forestall a panic.
  — Frank Partnoy, The Atlantic, 10 June 2020
• Putin forestalled that prospect in part by securing the services first of Akhmat Kadyrov and then his son and using them as a front-line proxy against other Chechen forces.
  — Joel Gehrke, Washington Examiner, 15 Sep. 2023
• But those defenses take a few days to kick in and might not arrive in time to forestall the early, and often most potent, stages of transmission.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 20 Dec. 2021
• The best way to forestall a catastrophic Chinese invasion of Taiwan is to raise the costs for Beijing.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 22 July 2021
• The new focus on indoor air quality could help hasten the end of the current pandemic and perhaps even help forestall the next one.
  — Douglas Starr, Science | AAAS, 5 Aug. 2021
• Such jobs forestall a certain amount of new construction, Chipperfield says, one of the biggest demons in the fight against global warming.
  — Sarah Medford, WSJ, 9 Mar. 2022
• But just trying to forestall rapid and radical policy change may no longer work.
  — Geoff Colvin, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2020
• And though many of these potential impacts have been known for years, or even decades, at this point, there have been no major policy shifts that would forestall them.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Mar. 2023
• And in his remarks, Biden will focus on steps primarily to forestall a crippling of the US public health system than on efforts to fully stop the spread of the virus.
  — Kevin Liptak, CNN, 21 Dec. 2021
• Again, the district has made strides, but not enough to forestall something more aggressive happening.
  — Arkansas Online, 15 Nov. 2020
• Aldermen hope to pass a version of the map with at least 41 votes by the end of the day Wednesday in order to forestall the chance for any 10 aldermen to back their own map and force a referendum.
  — Gregory Pratt, chicagotribune.com, 30 Nov. 2021

Last Updated: 28 May 2024