Sentence examples for staving off from inspiring English sources

I suppose he was staving off loneliness.

Staving off dotage is not cheap.

ENTERTAINMENT Living alone often means staving off loneliness, and staving off loneliness usually means electronics.

It's staving off the fedora-fest we know is coming.

Staving off a collective sinking feeling will not be easy.

It would mean staving off threats from enemies.

It's all about staving off the dreaded "d" word: drought.

Grace knows that nutrition is important to staving off illness.

Representative democracy has proved effective at staving off class war.

(She had some help staving off the rain).

It all comes down to staving off boredom.