Use of the word averting in a sentence example

averting

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The case was brought before the king, and Boetius succeeded in averting the coemptio from the Campanians. [Please select]

It is the only hope of averting an indiscriminate massacre, and things worse. [Please select]

Averting my eyes from her, I looked down the slope of the street towards the sea. [Please select]

, and thus averting what must, humanly speaking, have been a terrible accident. [Please select]

Is there no possibility of averting this sore evil. [Please select]

"I have heard something of this," said the stranger, deepening his voice and averting his head. [Please select]

Britling had been averting his mind most strenuously throughout the week-end. [Please select]

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