PREVENT in a Sentence
Learn PREVENT from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
353 example sentences for PREVENT, such as:
1. The police prevent and detect crime.
2. Nobody can prevent us/our getting married.
3. It is the job of the police to prevent crime.
4. Cover the entire device to prevent water penetration.
5. We should prevent the occurrence of physical violence.
2. Nobody can prevent us/our getting married.
3. It is the job of the police to prevent crime.
4. Cover the entire device to prevent water penetration.
5. We should prevent the occurrence of physical violence.
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Meanings and Examples of PREVENT
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prevent
v. keep from happening or arising; make impossible
v. stop (someone or something) from doing something or being in a certain state
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 This did not prevent his shedding tears at the well-acted scenes.
2 , at the age of eighty, held himself erect and smiling, which did not prevent him from being a bad bishop.
3 There was too much ignorance in Jean Valjean, even after his misfortune, to prevent much vagueness from still lingering there.
4 A whitish speck flattened against the rock does not prevent the condor from soaring aloft.
5 Girls are incurable on the subject of marriage, and all that we wise men can say will not prevent the waistcoat-makers and the shoe-stitchers from dreaming of husbands studded with diamonds.
6 In the first place, there is one improvement which these gentlemen of the police ought to make, and that is, to prevent prison contractors from wronging poor people.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WIT...
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WIT...
7 Madeleine, and before he could prevent her he felt her grasp his hand and press her lips to it.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WIT...
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WIT...
8 It was in vain that Thenardier sought to conceal himself in the branches; he could not prevent the man seeing him.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER X—HE WHO SEEKS TO BETTER HIMSELF MAY RENDER HIS S...
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER X—HE WHO SEEKS TO BETTER HIMSELF MAY RENDER HIS S...
9 This wall, however, did not absolutely prevent further progress; it was a wall which bordered a transverse street, in which the one he had taken ended.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—TO WIT, THE PLAN OF PARIS IN 1727
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—TO WIT, THE PLAN OF PARIS IN 1727
10 These voices had this strange characteristic, that they did not prevent the building from seeming to be deserted.
11 The hut was, in fact, so well hidden behind the ruins, and so cleverly arranged to prevent it being seen, that Jean Valjean had not perceived it.
12 This will prevent them from looking much in our direction.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—WHICH TREATS OF THE MANNER OF ENTERING A CONVEN...
Context Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—WHICH TREATS OF THE MANNER OF ENTERING A CONVEN...
13 Paris drinks a million litres of water a day, but that does not prevent it from occasionally beating the general alarm and ringing the tocsin.
14 Revery does not prevent a cab from passing by, nor the dreamer from taking note of that cab.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—BLONDEAU'S FUNERAL ORATION BY BOSSUET
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—BLONDEAU'S FUNERAL ORATION BY BOSSUET
15 He took good care not to become useless; having books did not prevent his reading, being a botanist did not prevent his being a gardener.
Example Sentence: (143 in 10 pages)
1 The incessant hurry and trivial activity of daily life seem to prevent, or at least, discourage quiet and intensive thinking.
2 The most direct financial incentive to prevent rubbish is to charge people by the amount of rubbish they put out.
3 We hope to prevent anything unpleasant from happening.
4 The soldiers barricaded the streets to prevent an attack.
5 There is a row of spikes on top of the prison wall to prevent the prisoners escaping.
6 Nobody can prevent us/our getting married.
7 We should prevent the occurrence of physical violence.
8 Republicans accuse Democrats of using delaying tactics to prevent a final vote on the bill.
9 The classmates' hearts ached for him and they begged him to wear gloves to prevent any more gashes.
10 The board can exercise its veto to prevent the decision.
11 To prevent flooding; we shall have to divert the river from its course.
12 Cover the entire device to prevent water penetration.
13 It is the business of the police to prevent and detect crime and of the law courts to punish crime.
14 The police prevent and detect crime.
15 It is the job of the police to prevent crime.