How to Use avert in a Sentence

avert

verb

• He sped up and averted an accident.
• The diplomatic talks narrowly averted a war.
• Old-World purists, avert your eyes.
  — Mike Desimone, Robb Report, 7 June 2026
• Zanoni said the city’s plans should buy time to avert the worst.
  — Michael Phillis, Fortune, 12 Apr. 2026
• Zanoni said the city's plans should buy time to avert the worst.
  — ABC News, 12 Apr. 2026
• How could my child, my flesh and blood, avert his gaze from them?
  — Literary Hub, 6 Oct. 2025
• The deals helped avert what would have been a third strike in a decade.
  — Teresa Liu, Daily News, 23 Apr. 2026
• But for now, there is still a chance to avert the worst outcome.
  — Alex De Waal, Foreign Affairs, 17 June 2024
• This is true, but averting our eyes doesn’t avert the outcomes.
  — Zeynep Tufekci, The Atlantic, 31 Dec. 2020
• Both sides have worked throughout the week to avert the 24-hour strike.
  — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 7 Dec. 2022
• So, the tariffs will be averted.
  — ABC News, 26 Oct. 2025
• Crisis averted — at least for now.
  — Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 21 Jan. 2026
• The goal is to avert a major cardiac event like a heart attack.
  — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 13 Dec. 2025
• Epstein took a plea deal in state court to avert federal charges.
  — James Hill, ABC News, 25 June 2021
• India hopes to avert a repeat of that, but prospects appear dim.
  — Matthew Lee, ajc, 2 Mar. 2023
• The deadline to avert a shutdown is tonight at midnight.
  — Simmone Shah, Time, 30 Sep. 2025
• Bohumila had to avert her gaze from the beer.
  — Zuzana Říhová, Literary Hub, 26 Sep. 2025
• Crisis averted, high-fives in the dugout for Hill.
  — Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 19 Apr. 2026
• These are the sparks that land Tell’s past back in his lap and leave him no room to avert his eyes.
  — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 23 Sep. 2021
• For the moment, the crisis seems to have been averted.
  — Thomas Wright, The Atlantic, 22 Jan. 2026
• Is this the world’s last best chance to avert climate disaster?
  — NBC News, 11 Nov. 2021
• The two sides reached an agreement this week, averting a proxy battle.
  — Lila MacLellan, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2024
• This would be a caution, an alert — a way to avert collisions.
  — Doug Turnbull, AJC.com, 12 July 2026
• More than anything else, that is what put us on track to avert a downward spiral.
  — New York Times, 18 May 2021
• Many Israelis have preferred to avert their gaze from the rage at their doorstep.
  — Roger Cohen, New York Times, 20 Nov. 2023
• What are the latest efforts to avert a breach at Piney Point?
  — Jesse Mendoza, USA TODAY, 5 Apr. 2021
• What's next in the effort to avert a TikTok ban?
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 19 Dec. 2025
• While an agreement over benefits could avert a strike, the two sides still would have much work to do.
  — Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2022
• That certainly would be an important big step to try to avert this.
  — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 18 Feb. 2024
• The pilots acted quickly to abort the takeoff and avert a crash.
  — The Denver Post Editorial Board, Denver Post, 13 May 2026