How to Use prevention in a Sentence

prevention

noun

• Exercise and diet play a role in the prevention of heart disease.
• As the proverb goes, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
  — Marc Saltzman, USA TODAY, 22 Jan. 2022
• The best prevention is to park in a garage and make sure the garage is squirrel-tight.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2023
• There is not yet a price set for the drug when used for HIV prevention.
  — Kate S. Petersen, USA TODAY, 11 Dec. 2024
• The review was focused on the ship’s fire prevention, readiness and response to the fire, the Navy said.
  — Andrew Dyer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Nov. 2022
• Still, an ounce of prevention, as the saying goes, beats a trip to the emergency room.
  — Steven Hill, Field & Stream, 25 Oct. 2023
• There is broad agreement that prevention is the best tool.
  — Howard Blumestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2022
• The hope is that the first two, along with improved defense, can enhance the team’s run prevention.
  — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 27 Mar. 2025
• The man, 22, of South Euclid, fled the store before loss prevention could detain him.
  — cleveland, 26 Aug. 2023
• As always, prevention is our best line of defense against the virus.
  — Ariana Garcia, Chron, 16 Aug. 2022
• The only thing that helps is prevention—with a vaccine.
  — Andrea Kane, CNN, 20 Aug. 2022
• Tremendous progress in suicide prevention and mental health has been made in the U.S. in 2022.
  — Brandon Kapelow, Time, 13 Oct. 2022
• The best way to avoid becoming the next victim is prevention.
  — Next Avenue, Forbes, 6 May 2022
• In March, more than two-thirds of voters agreed to raise the city’s sales tax by .5% to fund wildfire prevention measures.
  — Stephen Hobbs, Sacramento Bee, 2 May 2024
• Remember, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
  — Chicago Tribune, 1 Dec. 2022
• This is a real-world example of how the proverbial ounce of prevention can be worth a pound of cure.
  — Jim Crotty, STAT, 13 Feb. 2022
• Hope Squad is a peer-to-peer suicide prevention program used at schools across the nation.
  — The Enquirer, 12 Sep. 2022
• Last year was the first time in 50 years that Congress had expanded plans for child hunger prevention.
  — James Watson, Hartford Courant, 14 May 2025
• The researchers said that the best prevention is for prenatal care and syphilis testing, and the most common cause for the rise was a lack of access to both.
  — Julie Mazziotta, PEOPLE.com, 13 Apr. 2022
• More resources on fire prevention can be found at utahfiresense.org.
  — Jordan Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 June 2022
• Both Smith and Chambers agree that for teenagers, prevention is the best strategy.
  — Bydr. Chidimma J. Acholonu, ABC News, 17 May 2022
• Pregnancy prevention tools have always been next in the line of fire.
  — Charlotte Shane, Harper’s Magazine , 28 Sep. 2022
• But one thing’s for sure: Prevention of nausea goes back to the prevention of migraine.
  — Sara Lindberg, SELF, 7 Jan. 2022
• Low scores for bacteria in the water and flood prevention, a high score for beach access.
  — Jennifer Dixon, Detroit Free Press, 20 Apr. 2024
• One of the most important steps in termite prevention is knowing how to spot them.
  — Amplified Content Studio, Mercury News, 13 May 2025
• Most of that money did not go to smoking treatment and prevention.
  — al, 26 Oct. 2022
• Swanson said he was intrigued by talk of the Cubs pitching lab, their interest in run prevention and the prospects on tap.
  — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 21 Dec. 2022
• On many of the stops, Wu, on guitar, and his wife, on keys, play their own renditions of pop songs with new lyrics about myopia prevention.
  — Amit Katwala, WIRED, 22 Aug. 2023
• Here are some prevention strategies:6103 Wear loose clothing.
  — Sherri Gordon, Health, 14 Aug. 2025
• And just this year, housing affordability and homelessness prevention rose to the top of the legislative agenda in both chambers.
  — Adriana Negron, Hartford Courant, 15 Aug. 2025