Example Sentences

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“If anything good can come of Tyler’s death and this trial, it will be preventing someone else’s wife from receiving the call I did.”

From Washington Post • Oct. 11, 2022

This weekend, the challenge facing the Terrapins will be preventing Michigan State running back Kenneth Walker III from making a similar statement.

From Washington Times • Nov. 10, 2021

If you place a danger signal on a broken railroad track the effect will be preventing the wreck of the train, and the cause will be your placing the signal.

From Baltimore Catechism, No. 4 An Explanation of the Baltimore Catechism of Christian Doctrine by Kinkead, Thomas L.