Doctors tell us that more human beings are killed in England every year by unnecessary and preventible diseases, than were killed at Waterloo or Sadowa, and the great majority of these victims are children.
The annual slaughter from preventible causes of typhus fever is double the amount of what was suffered by the allied armies at the battle of Waterloo!
One-fourth of the then existing pauperism was traced by him to the preventible causes of disease.
Were we but aware of the vast amount of preventible misery around us, and of the vast possibility of removing it, which lies in the little science which we know already, we should rather bewail the slow departure of modern barbarism.
The great practical division of causes of crime may be made into preventible and non-preventible.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "preventible" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
