Sentence examples for was preventive from inspiring English sources
noun
A thing that prevents, hinders, or acts as an obstacle to.
His passion was preventive medicine — clean drinking water and vaccinations for Colombia's poor.
The honest case for war was "preventive" -- to stop a tyrant with malignant intentions from acquiring lethal capabilities or transferring those capabilities to other enemies.
The doctor, still wishing anonymity, said her specialty was "preventive medicine, trying to work to make sure situations like mine don't happen" to others.
The attack was "preventive," an army spokesman said, after more than a week of nightly shooting from Beit Jala at the southern Jerusalem neighborhood of Gilo.
Mr. Gamblin said that there had been no reports of the game being played at Angevine and that the measure was preventive for now.
They said that the seizure of money was preventive and that neither man had been formally charged or placed under arrest.
I like to be preventive about things.
So there will be preventive measures.
She says this is "preventive medicine".
"It's preventive and proactive," he said.
