Sentence examples for wards off from inspiring English sources

Still, Moore's equable ghost successfully wards off criticism.

The coating has antistatic properties, so it also wards off dust.

Public scrutiny of many critical public services also wards off innovation.

Incumbency usually wards off challengers, but Mr. Dewhurst's problems have proved attractive to them.

He wards off intruders by night and does repair work for the owner, Dennis Bassett, by day.

Snake soup is considered a delicacy in the city, as traditionalists believe it wards off colds and other maladies.

Just as academic writing calculates, then wards off, every potential challenge or criticism from a peer-review committee — that is how the clothes looked.

And he wards off any doubts about this style — his own or his readers' — with a kind of truculent earnestness: **{:.break one} ** This is not a poem.

One of the best-known fables about the Dutch is the story of the boy who wards off disaster by putting his finger in a leaky dike.

Mr. Platt's good-humored attitude helps keep the potent material from turning mawkish, and having his perspective also wards off a sense of exploitive voyeurism.

And he wards off any doubts about this style — his own or his readers' — with a kind of truculent earnestness: This is not a poem.