Sentence examples for been forestalled from inspiring English sources
verb
To prevent, delay or hinder something by taking precautionary or anticipatory measures; to avert.
- Fred forestalled disaster by his prompt action.
That could have been forestalled.
But he had been "forestalled".
Unfortunately Madoc's arrival had been forestalled by St Brendan in the seventh century.
British merchants were so confident that war had been forestalled that they rashly celebrated by sending the White House a large quantity of English cheese.
But the grim prospect of a US strike has been forestalled, if only temporarily, preventing a catastrophic deepening of the crisis there.
Change also has been forestalled here in Washington, a grid of single-story houses surrounded by wheat fields and flood plains.
Can the worst consequences be forestalled?
Can a war in Iraq be forestalled by semantics?
No more should it be forestalled by decision upon the matters of coverage.
When the mainland was weak, the question of reunification or independence could be forestalled.
Although Rhodes's agents secured some new territories for the company, elsewhere he was forestalled.
