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Example sentences for "preventative"

Lexicographically close words:
preved; prevely; prevenient; prevent; preventable; preventatives; prevented; preventer; preventeth; preventible
  1. The treatment consists in injecting into the arm a preventative serum.

  2. Modern medicine has, however, discovered an effective preventative for this disease in the typhoid prophylactic, which renders the person immune from typhoid fever.

  3. The use of coarse materials as a preventative of constipation failed to prevent scurvy onset.

  4. In France the American soldier's ration was big enough to yield him 4200 calories per day if he ate his entire daily allowance.

  5. For that reason he uses dextrin instead of starch for his carbohydrate and when he wishes to introduce the "B" vitamine it can be done by his method without having to recalculate the carbohydrate component.

  6. The college students were asked to name "the five features which interest you most.

  7. The omnivorous readers of from four to eight papers coincide roughly with the twenty-five percent who rated themselves at more than fifteen minutes.

  8. The only reason for its continuance is the still more cruel notion that the greater the terror punishment spreads, the more certain its preventative effect.

  9. They realize that "nakedness has a hygienic value as well as a spiritual significance, far beyond its influences in allaying the natural inquisitiveness of the young or acting as a preventative of morbid emotion.

  10. In the criminal trials against Westkamp and comrades in Duesseldorf the defendants were first taken under the Schutzhaft, then under preventative arrest.

  11. My comrade Caston in Duesseldorf was taken in preventative arrest one month before trial began.

  12. County agents carried medicine and veterinary equipment with them using it both in emergency cases and to instruct farmers in sanitation and preventative care.

  13. Similar work was undertaken to convince orchardists and crop producers of the advantages of preventative spraying to eliminate bacterial diseases and aid in insect control.

  14. The farmers were not entirely to blame since preventative medicine was a new concept, the benefits of which were not always immediately obvious.

  15. The farmer in what I suspect was fifty percent of the cases lost the animal anyway after the vet got there," acknowledged Joseph Beard, because so many times instead of having preventative medicine .

  16. It's a preventative and cure for gravitation-paralysis.

  17. The only preventative health care I concerned myself with was to take a multivitamin pill during those rare spells when I felt a bit run down and to eat lots of vegetables.

  18. But these very same people do not think they can afford the loss of a few hundred dollars of current income undertaking some virtually harmless preventative maintenance on their bodies.

  19. For this reason alone, preventative fasting is a very wise idea.

  20. Preventative Fasting During the years it takes for a body to degenerate enough to prompt a fast, the body has been storing up large quantities of unprocessed toxins in the cells, tissues, fat deposits, and organs.

  21. Ordinary small-pox vaccine has been employed as a preventative for distemper.

  22. With reference to the preventative measures against worm infestation, speaking practically, not a great deal can be done, the sources of infection being so varied.

  23. If placed in bags or boxes, the moth preventative should be sprinkled over freely.

  24. To keep these extremities warm and dry is a great preventative against the almost endless list of disorders which come from a "slight cold.

  25. Coffee is supposed to act as a preventative of gravel and gout, and to its influence is ascribed the rarity of those diseases in Prance and Turkey.

  26. Pieces of consecrated bread carried home and preserved is a preventative against the bite of a mad dog.

  27. Coral was a preventative against witchcraft, hence the fashion of ladies and children wearing necklaces and bracelets of this material.

  28. He said that the odor would drive away the tsetse, but notwithstanding this preventative remedy the horses grew thinner.

  29. I may mention here that the four-leaved clover was reputed to be a preventative against madness, and against being drafted for military service.

  30. The only real preventative is to arrange that the men do not remain deep in mud or cold water for prolonged periods.

  31. There is much opposing opinion as to which of these two preventative plans--providing of disinfectants to be used before or of remedies to be used as soon as possible after the act--is the more effective.

  32. State provision of hygienic preventative and curative means are to be given free to those in danger from infection as well as to all suffering from venereal diseases.

  33. Every preventative which is discovered for any defect, either in manners, temper, or understanding, diminishes the necessity for punishment.

  34. As a preventative from vice, you may employ fear; to restrain the excesses of all the furious passions, it is useful and necessary: but would you rouse the energies of virtue, you must inspire and invigorate the soul with hope.

  35. As a preventative of such action arising from the presence of the oil, only the highest grades of hydrocarbon oils should be used.

  36. In the tropics troops are require to camp at least 500 yards away from all native huts or villages as a preventative measure against malaria.

  37. An excellent preventative against sore feet is to wash them every night in hot (preferably salt) water and then dry them thoroughly.


  38. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "preventative" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    antacid; antidote; buffer; deterrent; discouraging; forbidding; forestalling; neutralizer; offset; preventive; prohibitive; prophylactic; protective; remedy