Sentence examples for avert someone from inspiring English sources

One man wants "nothing more than to avert someone else's sadness, to limit, reduce it.

If I had a penny for every time I've noticed someone avert their eyes when they see someone living outside, I could probably afford to build some affordable housing, which many U.S. cities desperately need.

Sometime you just need backup to avert a pushy host, someone to mix you that non-alcoholic drink or someone to change the subject before the host insists...again...again

Just make sure to avert your gaze to someone else after a few seconds so you don't freak people out.

But is that so different from men in the 1990s, posing and grunting, averting their eyes until someone finally made a move, and signalling their likes and dislikes with their attire, or the now-defunct handkerchief in the left or right pocket?

If someone casts for dish, avert the exchange.

Shouldn't these critical questions be addressed by someone in authority to avert a future catastrophe?

When you make eye contact with someone, don't quickly avert your gaze.

"That it's healthy?" He added: "I defy anyone to give me one example when an athlete having a gun averted trouble, defused a situation, protected someone from harm.

With a little smile, Gross asks, "And how will your book get to Madame Nalkowska?" The man stammers, averts his eyes, yet he speaks insistently: Someone has told him that Madame Gross knows Madame Nalkowska.

As a matter of practice (but not necessarily theory), convincing someone that a future crisis must be averted requires a higher level of persuasion than making the case for a policy that is claimed to ameliorate some extant problem.