How to Use prevention in a Sentence

prevention

noun

• Exercise and diet play a role in the prevention of heart disease.
• The best prevention is to park in a garage and make sure the garage is squirrel-tight.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2023
• 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
• The man, 22, of South Euclid, fled the store before loss prevention could detain him.
  — cleveland, 26 Aug. 2023
• 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
• Low scores for bacteria in the water and flood prevention, a high score for beach access.
  — Jennifer Dixon, Detroit Free Press, 20 Apr. 2024
• 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
• Their in-depth guidance on suicide prevention can be found here.
  — Christopher Dawson, CNN, 8 Sep. 2023
• Such treatments were commonly known, but by and large, prevention was not a thing.
  — Dr. Sharon Malone, TIME, 9 Apr. 2024
• Keep every inch of your shower squeaky clean with this mold removal and prevention guide.
  — Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Sep. 2024
• The class will provide scam prevention tips and will discuss common scams.
  — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 May 2024
• Our Select team spoke to experts about how ingrown hairs happen, how to get rid of them and the best products for prevention.
  — Elizabeth Both, NBC News, 28 Aug. 2023
• This is the sixth year that the suicide prevention nonprofit the Trevor Project, has conducted this type of survey.
  — Tyler Santora, Parents, 1 May 2024
• As with everything, prevention is better than cure, and there are a number of ways to avoid stripping a screw.
  — Terry Baddoo, USA TODAY, 2 Feb. 2023
• Michael Steinbach is head of financial crimes and fraud prevention at Citi.
  — Michael Steinbach, Fortune, 9 Feb. 2024
• Having the courage to hope -- and then acting on that hope -- has been key to both my recovery and my work in gun violence prevention.
  — CNN, 20 Nov. 2022
• The company only spent $8.6 million, or less than 1% of the fees, received on fraud prevention.
  — Ryan Randazzo, The Arizona Republic, 1 Dec. 2022
• Pandemic prevention emerged in the first decade of this century and has stayed there ever since.
  — Daniel W. Drezner, Foreign Affairs, 12 Aug. 2024
• But it shouldn’t be viewed as a prevention or treatment strategy.
  — Nick Blackmer, Verywell Health, 2 May 2024
• Both models increase the time a patient has with their provider in order to put more focus on disease prevention.
  — Zak Holdsworth, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2022
• But the two advocates found lessons in defeat and vowed that day to double down on gun violence prevention.
  — Will Simon, CNN, 14 Dec. 2022
• As with any problem, a focus on causes leads to prevention—and goes far beyond just coping.
  — Christina Maslach and Michael P. Leiter, Quartz, 8 Dec. 2022
• Some of the rare grant-giving initiatives that focus on prevention don’t last long either.
  — Caroline Chen, ProPublica, 23 May 2023
• San Francisco was among the cities that did receive state retail theft prevention grant money a year ago.
  — Jovi Dai, The Mercury News, 8 Sep. 2024
• How to Prevent Blackheads Any doctor will tell you that prevention is better than cure.
  — Emily Orofino, Vogue, 21 Nov. 2024
• This emphasizes the need for robust fraud detection and prevention measures to keep pace with the rapid influx of transaction data.
  — Mukul Garg, Forbes, 25 Nov. 2024
• The club can now add Vinicius Jr’s hamstring problem to that list and some in the dressing room have questioned the processes being followed for the prevention of injuries and players’ recovery.
  — Mario Cortegana, The Athletic, 25 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024