had forestalled
- past perfect of forestall.
Example Sentences
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Most interviewees had forestalled their descent into homelessness by doubling up with friends or relatives, only to have those arrangements fall apart.
From New York Times ● Jun. 20, 2023
Mr. Marsh and other aides went out for drinks that night, imagining they had forestalled a crisis.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 4, 2019
The tone of his speech had forestalled even Nye Bevan, who afterward admitted to friends, "Clem said all I would have said."
From Time Magazine Archive
So far, with the aid of 130,000 French troops, he had forestalled internal collapse.
From Time Magazine Archive
Today it had forestalled carnage, at least for a time.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
