How to Use stave off in a Sentence

stave off

verb

• Outside, there are fire pits for small groups to enjoy and stave off the cold.
  — Fritz Hahn, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2023
• Past this threshold, even shade, sleep, and water won’t be enough to stave off death.
  — Eleanor Cummins, The New Republic, 3 Aug. 2023
• When the good times return, will that be enough to stave off whispers Haun is a fair-weather friend?
  — Byjeff John Roberts, Fortune Crypto, 3 Aug. 2023
• The state could also stave off deep cuts by raising more revenue.
  — Andrew Sheeler, Sacramento Bee, 9 May 2024
• The Grammy winner prefers her venues warm to preserve her voice and stave off injuries.
  — Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 10 Apr. 2024
• Above all, what has helped stave off panic is a sense in the markets that the world has plenty of oil and natural gas.
  — Stanley Reed, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2024
• Boston had to stave off Toronto’s efforts to mount a comeback from down 3-1 in the first-round series.
  — Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 5 May 2024
• These scenes are funny enough to stave off any viewer concern.
  — Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Sep. 2023
• But not nearly enough to meet the goals of the Paris accord and stave off even more extreme events like what’s recently struck Brazil.
  — Justine Calma, The Verge, 20 Nov. 2023
• Aid agencies scrambled to stave off famine amid shortages of food and fuel.
  — Kareem Fahim, Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2023
• So far, the team has offered a series of grainy videos and pictures to Fish and Wildlife to try to stave off an extinction verdict.
  — Arkansas Online, 25 Dec. 2022
• The country grounded the ship on the reef 2½ decades ago to stave off China’s expanding control over the South China Sea.
  — Niharika Mandhana, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2023
• It’s been scrambling to stave off a default on its bond payments, and the clock will reportedly run out next week.
  — Bydavid Meyer, Fortune, 1 Nov. 2023
• President Biden has called on lawmakers to approve the funds as part of a deal that would fund the government and stave off a shutdown at the end of the month.
  — Tony Romm, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2023
• At stake is who will prepare the party for the next election while staving off further down-ballot losses.
  — Maya King, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2023
• But as the man in that picture surely knows, even a lighthouse can only do so much to stave off the oblivion lurking just beyond it.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Nov. 2023
• But experts then and now have warned against it, saying the approach will not stave off economic downfall.
  — Savannah Kuchar, USA TODAY, 18 Jan. 2023
• Most advocates agree that $16 billion would stave off the bulk of closures and fee increases.
  — Elliot Haspel, The New Republic, 8 Sep. 2023
• The only way to temporarily stave off death is to pass on the curse to someone else, who will become next on the list followed by the entity.
  — Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Oct. 2023
• The Tigers needed every one of those blocks to stave off a pesky Rebels team and bounce back from Saturday’s last-second loss at Vanderbilt.
  — Tom Green | [e-mail], al, 22 Feb. 2023
• The ruling for now staves off the prospect of the New York attorney general seeking to seize his property to enforce the judgment against him.
  — Alexandra Banner, CNN, 26 Mar. 2024
• Democrats staved off most of the policy riders that Republicans sought to include in the package.
  — Kevin Freking, Quartz, 9 Mar. 2024
• In February, Jenike Allen traveled to housing court in Cincinnati to try to stave off eviction from her three-bedroom rental home.
  — Gretchen Morgenson, NBC News, 22 Nov. 2022
• Now, the coalition faces a new challenge: Getting Ohio voters on board and staving off opposition from the state's top leaders.
  — Haley Bemiller, The Enquirer, 16 Aug. 2023
• This is a shampoo that’s designed to work on all hair types, which means that mamas everywhere can use this to help stave off postpartum hair loss.
  — Dorian Smith-Garcia, Parents, 11 July 2023
• Those moves caused some teachers to stave off retirement, easing some staffing crunches.
  — Trisha Powell Crain | [e-mail], al, 10 Dec. 2022
• To stave off intimidation, Gauff tried to think of her opponent as faceless and anonymous; to take Venus out of the equation.
  — Abby Aguirre, Vogue, 6 Mar. 2024
• Elastic or drawcords can stave off mid-workout adjustments—after all, no one likes a droopy crotch.
  — Sarah Madaus, SELF, 24 Jan. 2023
• To help stave off the risk of explosion, chemicals in five of the cars were purposefully released into a trench and burnt off, reports Newsweek.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 13 Feb. 2023
• These are clever initiatives to expand the pool of available text training data and stave off the looming data shortage.
  — Rob Toews, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024