Examples of 'averted' in a sentence
Meaning of "averted"
Avert (verb): Avert means to prevent or avoid something undesirable from happening. It involves taking action to steer away from a potential danger or threat
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- Turned away, especially as an expression of feeling; also, offended; unpropitious.
- simple past tense and past participle of avert
How to use "averted" in a sentence
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Damage must be averted and risks mitigated.
A bloody and unnecessary war has been averted.
You have just averted an intergalactic war.
I thought you said that crisis was averted.
Alamia can not be averted through a medium.
We averted our eyes and left in a hurry.
The world has averted its eyes.
Has averted international embarrassment for now.
It may even have averted another attack.
Josh averted his eyes before he replied.
They most certainly averted a mass tragedy.
Crisis averted with an even better crisis.
At once they all averted their eyes.
But he averted his eyes until it was over.
Scores of deaths have been averted in these sites.
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War was averted but tensions remained high.
The risk of lowered standards was thereby averted.
Disaster was averted at the most important time.
This whole war could have been averted.
Crisis averted for the time being.
Such an outcome must be averted at all costs.
Bertinotti be averted if we refrain completely from encouraging it.
It is critical that a wage price spiral be averted.
Early elections were averted at that point in time.
He averted his face to hide his expression.
My neck and eyes averted despite my will.
A crisis for the monarchy has been averted.
So the crisis was averted in the short term.
A key variable in preventing osteoporosis is averted costs.
The risks averted from the provisions.
We feel that a change is needed if disaster is to be averted.
Sajag immediately averted his grey eyes.
It has averted the balance of payments threat.
That situation must be averted at all costs.
We must very careful or war will be averted.
She might have averted the catastrophe.
Thus a major nuclear war was narrowly averted.
Catastrophe can be averted if the blockades are lifted.
Passenger plane suicide attack narrowly averted.
A disaster had been averted by the narrowest of margins.
It was only by forcible conversion that a massacre was averted.
And the blood averted the angel.
The lunar impact has been averted.
I cringed and averted my eyes several times.
This resignation effectively averted civil war.
Some closed or averted their eyes in revulsion.
Whose mastery of synthetic farming averted famine.
Much disease can be averted by healthful behavior.
In the wake of a deadly act of terrorism averted.
But the danger was only averted in appearance.
