Examples of 'stave' in a sentence
Meaning of "stave"
stave (noun) - one of the narrow pieces of wood that form the sides of a barrel
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- 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.
- The five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed; the staff.
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A whale can stave in the ribs of a ship.
You do everything you can to stave it off.
To stave off any kind of unforeseen unpleasantness.
I was trying to stave off their death.
A stave church is a medieval church made of wood.
Had a chance to stave off him case.
Each stave is selected specifically by its density.
How humanity can stave off disaster.
White and black on its lofty stave.
Enough to stave off any pirate raid.
I try pretty hard to stave that off.
It could stave in the side of the sub.
At the same location as a previous stave church.
I can just stave it off for a bit.
The village was a venue for stave dances.
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Tom had to stave off the corn.
The first church was probably a stave church.
Help stave off a zombie apocalypse.
The first church was a medieval stave church.
It will help stave off hunger and thirst.
I think you should replace the stave.
Hydration will help stave off symptoms.
Just below there is a man with a stave.
One story higher to stave off flooding.
Are you doing anything differently there to stave off.
Even cheese can stave off hunger.
He snapped them together to make a wooden stave.
That should be enough to stave off psychosis.
I can stave off mother nature.
Some nations struggle to stave off bankruptcy.
A chestnut stave was found and signs of a struggle.
Now they are trying to stave off a pandemic.
There was a stave church and then a cruciform church.
The five lines of the stave in music.
Stave commissions original artwork for these puzzles.
I am subscribing to your blog to stave off homesickness.
Stave building is not influenced by the log technique.
Have resorted to cannibalism to stave off starvation.
Some stave churches have also been relocated.
This is what you do to stave off boredom.
The stave church is on the left.
He could no longer stave off his fear.
And stave off cellular deterioration.
Medicine will not stave off this disease.
A stave church is a medieval church made from wood.
I am confident it will stave off this new plague.
And to stave off elections which he was slated to lose.
You have to help me stave off a panic attack.
Just stave off the sickness for a week.
Or treat patients and stave off premature death.
