Sentence examples for be warded off from inspiring English sources

And, obviously, that has to be warded off completely".

It creates enormous opportunities for disease, which tends to be warded off by inappropriate use of antibiotics.

The disease nearly always kills humans after the development of symptoms, though it can be warded off by a series of injections.

(Unlike errant husbands, however, raccoons may be warded off by installing a sprinkler with an optic sensor; see Mr. Bogue's Raccoon Fact Sheet, available free to readers).

Whether at work, working out, watching a movie, or just about anything else, it's as if there's been an epidemic of dehydration that can only be warded off by constant access to water.

The spikes have been compared to similar measures used to keep pigeons off roofs and statues across London, and criticised in an online petition as "sending [homeless people] the message that they are pests that need to be warded off".

Just nine days ago — Thursday, Sept. 18 — financial Armageddon was warded off when word began to leak about the government's giant bailout plan.

Now that the Greek crisis seems to have been warded off and Portugal and Spain are more or less covered by a European rescue mechanism, it would seem that Europe can be relieved again.

Spanish police were called to the embassy in the middle of the raid, but were warded off by the Mexican citizen Adrian Hong Chang who pretended to be a diplomat, the Spanish newspaper El País reported.

Whether patrons are warding off illness will remain a subject of debate.

She's warding off devils by looking them straight in the eye.