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
• Think of it as a new kind of 911 emergency line, but for suicide prevention.
  — Terry Demio, The Enquirer, 20 Dec. 2021
• 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
• That being said, prevention is only one aspect of the story.
  — Melissa Jun Rowley, Rolling Stone, 27 Aug. 2025
• Now, those results may not come to light, since the Trump administration terminated the CDC's drowning prevention experts this month and has proposed eliminating the program in its fiscal year 2026 budget request.
  — Pien Huang, NPR, 27 Aug. 2025