Forestall is an English word with synonyms like prevent or foreclose. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Forestall meaning
- To prevent, delay or hinder something by taking precautionary or anticipatory measures; to avert.
- To preclude or bar from happening, render impossible.
- To purchase the complete supply of a good, particularly foodstuffs, in order to charge a monopoly price.
Using Forestall
- The main meaning on this page is: To prevent, delay or hinder something by taking precautionary or anticipatory measures; to avert. | To preclude or bar from happening, render impossible. | To purchase the complete supply of a good, particularly foodstuffs, in order to charge a monopoly price.
- Useful related words include: prevent, foreclose, preclude, forbid.
- In the example corpus, forestall often appears in combinations such as: to forestall, forestall the, forestall further.
Context around Forestall
- Average sentence length in these examples: 28.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 13 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Forestall
- In this selection, "forestall" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 28.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, colleges, help, assist, further, possible and fiscal stand out and add context to how "forestall" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include abuja to forestall possible breakdown and activated to forestall further havoc. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "forestall" sits close to words such as abject, accumulations and adi, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with forestall
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Definitely, necessary action will be taken to forestall a recurrence. (10 words)
The police maintained that the legislature was sealed to forestall breakdown of law and order. (15 words)
The shot can also be anticipated to assist forestall infections due to its logistical ease. (15 words)
He charged the security and intelligence agencies to forestall further loss of lives and property on the Plateau and other parts of the country even as he urged them to go after the perpetrators of the dastardly act, apprehend and bring them to book. (44 words)
Prices of pork and fish have also stayed well above normal levels that prevailed before African swine fever (ASF) decimated an estimated one-third of the country’s swine population and key fishing areas were closed to forestall depletion of fish stocks. (42 words)
In his The Man Died, the memoirist relates his effort to forestall the civil war by daring across the Biafran border, and wrote about the value of a third force to salvage a drift down an incline of blood and death. (41 words)
Example sentences (20)
A businessman in the Central Area, Chukwuemeka Alex, called on the government to deploy security personnel around Abuja to forestall possible breakdown of law and order after the judgement.
Definitely, necessary action will be taken to forestall a recurrence.
Federal dropping of money out of airplanes on college campuses, or its equivalence, helped colleges forestall fiscal disaster over the last three years, but that money is running out.
He charged the security and intelligence agencies to forestall further loss of lives and property on the Plateau and other parts of the country even as he urged them to go after the perpetrators of the dastardly act, apprehend and bring them to book.
He said they were apprehended while on patrol to forestall law and order during the Iwude Ijesa Celebration in Ilesa Town.
In his The Man Died, the memoirist relates his effort to forestall the civil war by daring across the Biafran border, and wrote about the value of a third force to salvage a drift down an incline of blood and death.
It also tasked MfBs and other relevant stakeholders to get involved in the implementation of policies of urgent importance to forestall the crisis that recently characterised the implementation of the Naira redesign policy.
It called on government to engage the AGI on measures to incentivise local industries to forestall the negative consequences of these policies.
James, who condemned the renewed violence in the area, however, said that more troops had been deployed to the troubled communities to forestall further breakdown of law and order.
Meningococcal vaccines can shield you towards Pneumococcal vaccines will help guard towards Haemophilus influenzae serotype b (Hib) vaccines will help forestall Hib infections.
Prices of pork and fish have also stayed well above normal levels that prevailed before African swine fever (ASF) decimated an estimated one-third of the country’s swine population and key fishing areas were closed to forestall depletion of fish stocks.
The police maintained that the legislature was sealed to forestall breakdown of law and order.
The shot can also be anticipated to assist forestall infections due to its logistical ease.
The Volcker Rule additionally regulates monetary companies’ use of derivatives in an try to forestall “too large to fail” establishments from taking giant dangers that may wreak havoc on the broader financial system.
Undo Broken Windows, the strategy of focusing on lesser crimes to forestall larger ones, decriminalize so-called quality-of-life offenses like turnstile jumping, end most police frisks, and outlaw undercover sting operations.
He also said that there was an urgent need to improve water supply in strategic points in the market to forestall future occurrence.
He further assured that a more formidable security architecture will be activated to forestall further havoc on the facilities, while a technical team has been directed to inspect, evaluate and reinstate the damaged parts of the superstructure.
He said the committee would collaborate with the security agencies in the state to forestall a breakdown of law and order before, during and after the primary.
This group may want to keep busy, or perhaps needs the added income to forestall years of living off savings and any pension income.
According to Shehu, on receiving the report, some of the officers led by the DPO in Maradun responded to the distress call and arrived at the village to forestall a further attack on the neighbouring villages.
Common combinations with forestall
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: