Staving in A Sentence

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    Aquarius finds it fun and exciting to change her appearance if for no other reason than staving off boredom.

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    In order to best engage in truly staving off lines and wrinkles, products like retinol and AHA/BHAs must be considered.

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    Some herbal remedies are also designed as preventative, purportedly staving off certain illnesses and injuries.

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    Some routine grooming and a little added nutritional lubricant to your pet's diet will go a long way toward staving off a hairy situation.

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    The compromise served its turn in allaying political bitterness and staving off a direct conflict between the United States and South Carolina.

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    The formidable defensive system on which the German Higher Command, apparently with good reasons, relied to hold up the Allied advance until the winter should give pause to active operations and secure for their hard-driven troops and warweary people a little respite from their trials and disillusionments, had been burst into fragments, and there was left for German arms no further resource for staving off disaster.

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    Yully let the power fill her and mix with the other energies, staving off panic that there was much more than she could ever control.