Sentence example with the word 'deter'

deter

anticipate, check, debar, disinterest, faze, frighten, intimidate, preclude, restrain, shut out, turn off

Definition v. try to prevent

Last update: January 24, 2017


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We are thinking of ways that can deter the youth from smoking.   [verb]

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They have continued to build far more intercontinental ballistic missiles than they could possibly need simply to deter an attack.   [verb]

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When they heard about all the recent break-ins around the neighborhood, they bought a huge dog that would be sure to deter any uninvited visitors.   [verb]

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The fear of punishment, however, which they knew was certain to attend their re-capture and return, in all cases proved sufficient to deter them from the experiment.   [noun]

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Why do they not deter.   [verb]

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But that can not deter me from looking the question squarely in the face.   [verb]

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I am conscious of having consented to, or authorized, no cruelty, and the fear of suffering innocently for the crimes of others shall not deter me from executing my commission.   [verb]

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"Nay," said Simonides, "the sheik shall not deter thee from reading."   [verb]

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Denisov had two hundred, and Dolokhov might have as many more, but the disparity of numbers did not deter Denisov.   [verb]

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He might deter the muggers and rapists, but he attracts people like Michael.   [Please select]

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Yet this knowledge could not deter him from keeping faith with them.   [Please select]

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