Use prevents in a sentence
More example sentences with the word prevents in them
- My love for you, damnable as it would seem in the world's eyes, prevents it. [11]
- I don't know why I can't what prevents me. [9]
- It is not true that Mr. Clay's bill prevents the passage of one more favorable to us of the new States. [7]
- And I shame to say it, my own daughter prevents me from obtaining the money to keep us out of the Fleet. [9]
- It stands in the way, and prevents the adjustment, and the giving of necessary attention to other questions of national house-keeping. [7]
- Won't the thing that prevents your marrying Junia be a danger in this, if you go on? [11]
- But it prevents small-pox, say the Homoeopathists. [3]
- It prevents the reading of anything in full, and its satisfactory assimilation. [4]
- The least thing puts me out of the vein, and even applause flurries me and prevents my writing, though of course it will ultimately be a stimulus . [4]
- The dim light prevents your distinguishing the colour of his robe, but I know it, for I saw it in the glare of day. [10]
- As to hiding or burying your possessions, as most Egyptians do in these hard times, it is impossible, for the same reason as prevents our depositing it on interest in the state land-register. [10]
- And now, when one wants to smooth the thing over, some conceit prevents your apologizing, and you wish to make the whole affair public. [2]
- Nothing but lack of enterprise prevents any farmer from enjoying abundance of fruit. [4]
- But you will observe, that, in riding on horseback, you always have a feeling, that, after all, it is not you that do the work, but the animal, and this prevents the satisfaction from being complete. [6]
- The statute law, no doubt, prevents many persons from committing crime, but our method of administering it certainly does not lessen the criminal class, and it does not adequately protect society. [4]
- I grieve that my waning strength prevents rejoicing in the sight of your most gracious presence. [2]
- There is very little in them and very little of them; and so there is not much in a linchpin considered by itself, but it often keeps a wheel from coming off and prevents what might be a catastrophe. [6]
- Light is admitted into the interior through a double screen of pierced marble, which tempers the glare of an Indian sky while its whiteness prevents the mellow effect from degenerating into gloom. [5]
- At that meeting he was struck for the first time by the endless variety of men's minds, which prevents a truth from ever presenting itself identically to two persons. [2]
- Little things which have been said seem to have new meaning now, and I feel"--she smiled significantly--"that I am standing on the brink of some great happening, and only a big secret, like a cloud, prevents me from seeing it, realizing it. [11]
- Well, well, a good and wholesome thing is a little harmless fun in this world; it tones a body up and keeps him human and prevents him from souring. [5]
- That prevents you from spoiling your own show. [11]
- Like a dark cloud, which sweeps over the starry sky and prevents the astronomer from seeing the planets which he desires to observe, the fear that Proclus's praise had been bestowed upon the work of Myrtilus stood between him and every goal of his thought. [10]
- It is not a pleasure to record the perfidy of man, nor the lack of judgment which prevents him, in his circumscribed lights, from recognizing undoubted geniuses when he sees them. [9]
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