Preventing

Examples

• When the bed is finished, the strips are clamped with steel clamps, the turned-up ends of which firmly grip the sides of the bed, thus preventing warping or spreading. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• He succeeded, where Taft failed, in preventing that drought of invention which officialism brings. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• A method of preventing in a great measure friction of water against the hull of a ship and incidentally preventing fouling by barnacles. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I am convinced, madam, said Edmund, preventing Fanny, that Sir Thomas would not like it. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• I might have some hope of preventing the elopement; but there's the same difficulty, Mr. Walker, just the same. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The fibrous husks of cocoanuts are prepared in such a way as to form cellulose, which is used for the protection of warships, preventing the inflow of water through shot holes. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• I _am_ of some use, I hope, in preventing waste and making the most of things. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• We discussed the best means of preventing infection, and of preserving health and activity in a large city thus afflicted--London, for instance. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Mention has already been made of office and other elevators, in which compressed air is an important factor in operating the same and for preventing accidents. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• A little flogging for man and woman too would be the best way of preventing such things. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• It effects a saving of gas by preventing it from blowing when the pressure is too great, and also gives a more steady and uniform light. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• But it seems to have been thought that this kind of innocence may be punished by way of _preventing crimes_. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• You may thereby be the happy instrument of great good to the nation, and of preventing much mischief and bloodshed. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• I came in the hope of preventing it. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• This system has been of great value in preventing a shortage of coal during strikes. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The Trinity House installed a station at the East Goodwin Lighthouse, which communicated with shore and proved of the greatest value in preventing shipwrecks. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• We are but preventing her from injuring another. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• And he who is most skilful in preventing or escaping from a disease is best able to create one? Plato. The Republic.
• One difficulty hitherto has been that a message may be received by hundreds of receiving instruments in all directions, thus preventing secrecy. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Some alteration in the present proportion seems to be the only method of preventing this inconveniency. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• This is probably due to a degree of roughness in the surface of fibers, often imperceptible to the eye, yet preventing them when in close contact from slipping easily upon each other. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• He was affected by his mistress's deplorable situation, and succeeded in preventing an outrageous denial of the epithet drunken on the footman's part. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• He wanted to find some way of preventing this hardest of all metals from melting when the full force of the electric current was turned into it. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• This regulation, instead of preventing, has been found from experience to increase the evil of usury. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The numerous types of cells in daily use differ chiefly in the devices employed for preventing the formation of hydrogen bubbles, or for disposing of them when formed. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.

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