How to use "avert" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "avert" in popular movie and book plots

  • To avert this, they have agreed to split the country – Polyneices allows Eteocles to rule for one year.  - The Phoenician Women
  • In order to avert attention from the many presidential lapses, the members of Fletcher's inner circle have become ruthless beyond imagination.  - A Planet for the President
  • Chisholm has also fallen in love with Gloria Perkins and only proposed to Viola to avert attention from his association with Gloria.  - Oh My Darling Daughter
  • Fortunately, Ruth always knows when he is and can travel through time to avert the growing political crisis.  - The White Dragon (novel)
  • To avert danger he is bound over to a week's silence by Sindibad, leader of the Seven Wise Masters.  - Seven Wise Masters
  • As the train speeds out of control, Rebecca and Billy apply the brakes and avert its course towards an abandoned building.  - Resident Evil Zero
  • Amadopoulos and Homer go to the control room, and Amadopoulos asks Homer to avert the meltdown.  - Homer Defined
  • The Doctor is shocked to realise that he has been sent by the Time Lords to avert this situation.  - Attack of the Cybermen
  • Prior to the deal, he is warned to not sabotage the deal in order to avert police attention.  - Never Die Alone
  • Poirot intervened with sleeping pills in Hastings' hot chocolate that night, to avert a disastrous rash action.  - Curtain (novel)
  • But it is too late to arrest the decline of the Egyptian polity and to avert the eventual fall of the Egyptian civilization.  - Pharaoh (novel)
  • Dorilys is able to avert the attack.  - Stormqueen!
  • The climax comes when Arthur has the chance to insert an article that would avert history, to stop the presses at The Hour.  - The Inheritors (Conrad and Ford novel)
  • Roberta expects Clyde to marry her to avert the shame of an unwed pregnancy, but Clyde now dreams instead of marrying Sondra.  - An American Tragedy
  • Scudder explains that he has faked his own death in order to avert suspicion.  - The Thirty-Nine Steps
  • (a light disguise for Bensons, where Sayers worked) to investigate a mystery and avert a scandal.  - Murder Must Advertise

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