staving off's Usage Examples:

the game, scoring three vital late games "rouges" (single points) and staving off two critical potential turnovers.

He set about staving off the threat of relegation before bringing back club legend Stanley Matthews.

appearance against Cambridge University in 1976, as a middle-order batsman, staving off a hat-trick in an innings victory.

office codes in each numbering plan area (NPA) from 540 to 792, thereby staving off the threat of exhausting the number pool, which was forecast to occur.

grace as well as to potentially reconnect with humanity, all the while staving off their own agony and evading monstrous demons.

He played an important role in staving off the Palace's persecution of the Donglin faction under Tianqi until his.

"Q'A: staving off AMR disaster with Ineos and the University of Oxford".

Blake left Nissen in mid-1980 having spent many years staving off the pressure from Nissen's then-owners to cease manufacturing trampolines.

This set the tone for a season in which the Eastenders were constantly staving off the threat of relegation.

Ridden by Ted Rice he won the race by a nose after staving off Upset, who showed impressive speed on the home stretch, and close third.

Conway also proposes staving off geriatric Hudlar problems by elective amputation.

fortifications protected the capital Luoyang in the other direction, staving off attacks coming from the west and northwest.

KVET and KASE have historically been Austin's top country stations, staving off many competitors over the decades.

Indeed, Paris Saint-Germain spent two seasons staving off relegations that were only very narrowly avoided.

saved would be able to live long enough on the transplanted organs (staving off rejection and the original sickness causing their need for replacement).

first career victory by throwing a complete game against Pepperdine, staving off elimination in the 2006 NCAA Regional.

throughout: King Claudius sends ambassadors to Norway in the hopes of staving off his invasion, and they return with the news that Fortinbras will attack.

After staving off the threat of relegation into the Highland League in a two-leg play-off.

Synonyms:

Manhattan;

Antonyms:

deactivation; finish; end; ending;