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Stave is an English word with synonyms like staff or burst. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.

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Stave meaning

  1. One of a number of narrow strips of wood, or narrow iron plates, placed edge to edge to form the sides, covering, or lining of a vessel or structure; especially, one of the strips which form the sides of a cask, barrel, pail, etc.
  2. One of the bars or rounds of a rack, rungs of a ladder, etc; one of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel
  3. A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.

Synonyms of Stave

staff burst stave in outfit fit out fit equip crosspiece round rung spline slat lag musical notation split

Using Stave

  • The main meaning on this page is: One of a number of narrow strips of wood, or narrow iron plates, placed edge to edge to form the sides, covering, or lining of a vessel or structure; especially, one of the strips which form the sides of a cask, barrel, pail, etc. | One of the bars or rounds of a rack, rungs of a ladder, etc; one of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel | A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.
  • Useful related words include: staff, burst, stave in, outfit.
  • In the example corpus, stave often appears in combinations such as: stave off, to stave, and stave.

Context around Stave

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 28.2 words
  • Position in the sentence: 5 start, 4 middle, 11 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Corpus analysis for Stave

  • In this selection, "stave" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 28.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, modified, aging, crooked, off, notation and hadn stand out and add context to how "stave" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include able to stave off the and aid to stave off the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "stave" sits close to words such as abound, arteries and autistic, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with stave

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Getting the green light to reverse split may indirectly enable the company to once again stave off bankruptcy. (18 words)

A psychologist’s only tool to help people remediate their symptoms, reform their lives and stave off suicide is words. (20 words)

One Target store in the city has been forced to lock up more of its products to stave off thieves. (20 words)

But the measures have been met with a wave of public skepticism, ridicule and debate, highlighting the challenges China faces as it seeks to stave off a shrinking work force that could imperil economic growth. (35 words)

If players want to survive as the vilified Boneraiser, they have to assemble an army of ghoulies and deamons to stave off the heroes who are determined to put an end to their necromantic practices. (35 words)

Last week, after two failed votes, House Republicans rallied on Tuesday to initiate discussions on a series of spending bills, aiming to garner enough support to stave off a government shutdown by week’s end. (35 words)

Example sentences (20)

Modified Stave Notation main Modified Stave Notation (MSN) is an alternative way of notating music for people who cannot easily read ordinary musical notation even if it is enlarged.

Placement on the stave To facilitate writing for different tessituras, any of the clefs may theoretically be placed on any of the lines of the stave.

After she and Ryberg divorced, she married Victor Andreasen, who helped her stave off her addiction for a time, but she continued to struggle with it for the rest of her life.

A psychologist’s only tool to help people remediate their symptoms, reform their lives and stave off suicide is words.

As a result, Ukraine has had to rely heavily on foreign partners and international organizations for economic aid to stave off the Russian onslaught and begin launching a counteroffensive.

But in four weeks, people who consumed six teaspoons every day significantly increased their blood antioxidant levels, helping to prevent cell damage, fend off heart disease, delay aging, stave off cancers, and preserve vision.

But the measures have been met with a wave of public skepticism, ridicule and debate, highlighting the challenges China faces as it seeks to stave off a shrinking work force that could imperil economic growth.

Crooked Stave hadn’t made an amber though, so Oberle and the staff began talking about brewing one as a small-batch release.

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For so long, it seemed that he and Fitzpatrick would bring a point home for Europe in the final game of afternoon fourballs and stave off the first hints of a USA comeback.

Getting the green light to reverse split may indirectly enable the company to once again stave off bankruptcy.

However, as injuries and defensive fragility took their toll, his brand of attacking stopped yielding results and the hierarchy intervened in an ultimately successful bid to stave off relegation.

If players want to survive as the vilified Boneraiser, they have to assemble an army of ghoulies and deamons to stave off the heroes who are determined to put an end to their necromantic practices.

In the town centre, people were almost as close as penguins which formed a great shield and collective body heat to stave off the cold weather.

Last week, after two failed votes, House Republicans rallied on Tuesday to initiate discussions on a series of spending bills, aiming to garner enough support to stave off a government shutdown by week’s end.

Levin hopes that this might sometimes persuade the 18 Republicans to flip their votes, for example on lifting the debt ceiling: six would be enough to stave off a default.

None of this may stave off a recession; anything may happen in a year and a half, a lesson brought home only too painfully by the tumult of 2020-2022.

One Target store in the city has been forced to lock up more of its products to stave off thieves.

Richard Nixon wrote in his memoirs that he adopted the “Southern strategy” — law-and-order and cultural rhetoric similar to Wallace's — to stave off Wallace.

Smith earlier this month asked the US Supreme Court to bypass the lower appeals court and immediately decide the issue, in an attempt to stave off Trump´s attempt at delay.

Somehow, Europe was able to stave off the pests until at least 2019, when locals were first stung by the fire ants.

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Common combinations with stave

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "stave" in a sentence?
An example: "Modified Stave Notation main Modified Stave Notation (MSN) is an alternative way of notating music for people who cannot easily read ordinary musical notation even if it is enlarged." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "stave" from authentic English texts.
What does "stave" mean?
Stave means: One of a number of narrow strips of wood, or narrow iron plates, placed edge to edge to form the sides, covering, or lining of a vessel or structure; especially, one of the strips which form the sides of a cask, barrel, pail, etc.
What are synonyms of "stave"?
Common synonyms of "stave" include: staff, burst, stave in, outfit, fit out, fit, equip, crosspiece. Plus 7 more synonyms.
How many example sentences with "stave" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "stave", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.