postpone
Origin of postpone
Synonym study
Examples from the Web for postpone
Contemporary Examples of postpone
His first prescription when I saw him was to have the CAT scan test that I had been forced to postpone for a month and a half.
At this point, the photographer says, he decided that too many people knew about his trip and so he decided to postpone it.
The prerequisite for this is for the U.S. to postpone current efforts for some kind of political transition among Syrians.
We still need to see if that will happen, or if we need to postpone it.
The term allows us to postpone or cancel altogether our confrontation with the word we must use: human.
Historical Examples of postpone
Should she postpone it or should she let the boy take all of his hurts together?
Her Father's DaughterGene Stratton-Porter
And if I do obtain it, will postpone my appointment with Mr. Lovelace.
Clarissa, Volume 2 (of 9)Samuel Richardson
It is the fashion nowadays to postpone budgets as long as we can,—eh?
Alice, or The Mysteries, CompleteEdward Bulwer-Lytton
Well, we will have to postpone our lesson in literature until afterwards.
In a Steamer Chair and Other StoriesRobert Barr
I have reasons that I cannot now explain, for all I do, and all I postpone.
The Room in the Dragon VolantJ. Sheridan LeFanu