Sentence examples for forfend from inspiring English sources

Serve warm or cold, plain or with – heaven forfend – a little more butter.

Unless, heaven forfend, an attempt were made to take over the administration of Myanmar, which would involve an armed invasion, the action would be confined to air drops.

HEAVEN forfend that you have failed to read the new edition of The Economist in its entirety.

The more hair-shirt sort of environmentalism emphasises the idea of moving away from fossil-fuel use (though not, heaven forfend, towards nuclear power).

Admittedly, it is not yet clear that this actually results in pay cuts (heaven forfend).

Bureaucrats, heaven forfend, are being made redundant.

The over-all effect suggests frenetic depression, mental energies dedicated to forfending thought.

The sturdy dignity of the maid forfends even a notion of prurience.

Rauch's redolences of Socialist Realism are like a dead-virus vaccine: a virulence deprived of its power to sicken and, thereby, forfending sickness.

But the picture forfends mourning.

Or heaven forfend somehow to compare ourselves to this (or any other) great sage.