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
• If fight-or-flight fails, the instinct to feign death kicks in as an attempt to forestall the danger.
  — Rachel Nuwer, Scientific American, 14 May 2024
• That might help end the current pandemic and forestall the next one.
  — Jon Cohen, Science | AAAS, 15 Apr. 2021
• The bank has tried before, and failed, to forestall such a reaction.
  — The Economist, 28 Oct. 2017
• On the one hand, this forestalls a costlier decision — what to do with the trash when the landfill does fill up.
  — David Gutman, The Seattle Times, 26 Mar. 2019
• 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
• The idea is twofold: to streamline the cooking and to prevent or forestall accidents and stress.
  — Bill St. John, The Denver Post, 26 May 2017
• For weeks, the United States and China had appeared close to a deal that would have forestalled tariffs.
  — New York Times, 19 June 2018
• 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
• By the time of the award, Kissinger had helped forestall an earlier peace deal in Vietnam and backed the bombing of Cambodia.
  — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 21 Sep. 2017
• This is a very, very good film devoted to love, and to forestalling the cure permanently.
  — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 13 Dec. 2017
• But the unlucky nominee’s bid was forestalled by the U.S. Senate, blocked due to the hostile politics of the time.
  — Erick Trickey, Smithsonian, 20 Mar. 2017
• But the unlucky nominee’s bid was forestalled by the U.S. Senate, blocked due to the hostile politics of the time.
  — Erick Trickey, Smithsonian, 20 Mar. 2017
• What incentives are there to forestall the next episode of Syria's nightmare?
  — Tim Lister, CNN, 15 Apr. 2018
• None of these deficiencies were enough to forestall the Navy's order, though.
  — Eric Tegler, Popular Mechanics, 29 Dec. 2016
• 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
• The storyline here in the U.K. will be the hip injury that forestalled Murray’s title defense.
  — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 12 July 2017
• 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
• The concern was that rather than forestalling wider conflict, the strike could accelerate it.
  — Anna Mulrine Grobe, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Oct. 2024
• Each show plays teasing games of will-they-or-won’t-they, finding endless last-minute ways to forestall kisses or worse.
  — Mike Hale, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2018
• The General Assembly should begin work in earnest in next year’s session on a comprehensive plan to forestall these calamities.
  — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 18 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024