How to Use stave in a Sentence

stave

1 of 2 noun

• On the sides of the Ark were staves (poles) by which the Ark was carried.
  — Rabbi Avi Weiss, Sun Sentinel, 20 Feb. 2023
• Step 2: Shape the Bow Roughly shape your bow from the green stave.
  — Keith McCafferty, Field & Stream, 29 June 2023
• She was clamped to the moss with small staves through her elbows and knees.
  — Christian Als, Smithsonian, 29 May 2017
• Keep the stave roughly 1 inch wide from tip to tip and 1 inch thick.
  — Andrew Del-Colle and Lara Sorokanich, Popular Mechanics, 5 June 2018
• Instead, anchor the stave in the ground over bare soil or rocks.
  — T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 9 Jan. 2017
• Leave enough room on the end of each stave to cut off roughly 6 inches, where the wood might have cracks.
  — Andrew Del-Colle, Popular Mechanics, 16 Aug. 2020
• The wooden hut is filled with staves drying on the shelves or placed gently against the wall.
  — Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2017
• Props for fire arts are displayed on a far wall — hoops, staves, fans and a whip that could be lit on fire.
  — Daniel Krieger, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2016
• For same day shooting, pick a bow stave that is dead and dry, but not rotten.
  — Tim MacWelch, Outdoor Life, 25 June 2020
• If there is a natural curve to the stave, choose the outside of the curve as the belly because pulling the bow against the curve will add power.
  — Keith McCafferty, Field & Stream, 29 June 2023
• Initially they were equipped with a few old rifles, staves and knives.
  — James Hookway, WSJ, 13 Sep. 2017
• The crucial thing in terms of looking at the score is this pianissimo for the bottom two staves.
  — Seth Colter Walls, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2017
• Line the sides of the bowl with the soldiers (like the staves of a wine barrel), overlapping as needed to make sure the bowl’s sides are fully covered.
  — Robin Mather, charlotteobserver, 25 July 2017
• Jamie will load up a stave (available at his retail shop at 2710 Frankfort Ave.) with, say, oysters, and grill them right in the fire.
  — Dana McMahan, The Courier-Journal, 22 May 2018
• Next the staves were steamed to become more flexible and flattened into boards.
  — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 28 July 2023
• Just seven more days with that stave created a stronger cinnamon tone with a toasty feel to it.
  — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 7 Mar. 2022
• The summertime pushes the whiskey too far into those French oak staves, and brings out a negative taste through some of the tannins.
  — Tony Sachs, Esquire, 14 Mar. 2018
• Where half a century in wood will leave most whiskies tasting like a brittle oak stave, a few lucky casks manage to avoid that fate.
  — Tony Sachs, Robb Report, 23 Oct. 2019
• The findings suggest that consuming more salt staves off thirst and helps people burn more calories.
  — Ashley Weatherford, The Cut, 8 May 2017
• With a hatchet or a knife and baton, split the thicker end of the branch with two perpendicular lengthwise cuts down the stave about 10 inches.
  — T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 9 Jan. 2017
• This bourbon stave bottle topper is a decorative top piece carved from the stave of a barrel that was used to age bourbon.
  — AL.com, 7 June 2017
• Oak staves can be added to achieve the flavor usually imparted by barrels.
  — Aleksandra Crapanzano, WSJ, 12 Oct. 2018
• But when the singers do get fully comfortable between the staves, the results are often impressive.
  — Punch Shaw, star-telegram, 5 Aug. 2017
• The remaining letters, smudged and mostly erased, spread to the right and downward, like descending notes on a musical stave.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2023
• Dark accents contrast with handmade tables and chairs crafted from staves and blond-wood paneled walls.
  — oregonlive, 18 Dec. 2019
• Barrel staves threaded across the ceiling, sprouting jagged brass light fixtures.
  — Josh Noel, chicagotribune.com, 6 June 2019
• In this case, 10 wood staves are inserted into a cask-strength barrel of Maker’s Mark, which is then matured for an extra nine weeks.
  — Kevin Gray, Dallas News, 15 Jan. 2020
• Take the tour with a flight of whiskeys (three one-ounce pours in glasses served on a whiskey barrel stave) as chosen by you or with the expert guidance of owner Chip MacGregor and his staff.
  — Special To The Oregonian, OregonLive.com, 31 Aug. 2017
• This week, another Reuters image emerged, of a Muslim man on all fours, bloodied and bowed, trying to shield his head from the dozen or so men encircling him and beating him with staves.
  — Samanth Subramanian, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2020
• The blend is finished with French oak staves for three to six months, a step that is similar to the process used by distilleries like Maker’s Mark that use staves to finish its Maker’s 46 expression.
  — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 22 Dec. 2023

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stave

2 of 2 verb

• Adleman gave up a run to cut the lead to one, but staved off a full collapse.
  — Zach Buchanan, Cincinnati.com, 17 Aug. 2017
• In your 20s you down one between cocktails to stave off a hangover.
  — NBC News, 30 May 2017
• Fauci said the search is on for a consistent method to stave off heart attacks and strokes in those with HIV.
  — Meredith Cohn, baltimoresun.com, 28 May 2017
• To stave them off, wipe the seal down weekly with a mild bleach solution (1-part bleach, 9-parts water).
  — NBC News, 14 June 2018
• To see if there was a way to stave that off, the researchers created a model that would stabilize the ice sheet.
  — Roni Dengler, Discover Magazine, 17 July 2019
• Toward the end of the process, stave No. 90 ended up being one of my favorites, but early on it was among the underdogs.
  — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 7 Mar. 2022
• According to researchers, watching a favorite show staves it off, but a Netflix binge is a sign of it.
  — Sarah Fay, Longreads, 17 Mar. 2020
• His lawyers said a pardon was his only chance to stave off deportation.
  — Washington Post, 20 May 2017
• And now to areas trying to stave a Taliban offensive that has taken dozens of districts in recent days in the country’s north.
  — New York Times, 25 June 2021
• The rhythm elements help stave this off a bit but also take some of the bite out of a traditionally challenging genre.
  — Brittany Vincent, Rolling Stone, 8 Feb. 2023
• The world is at last waking up to this humanitarian crisis—and to the fact that Turkey is the only country trying to stave it off.
  — The Economist, 7 Mar. 2020
• Illness, suffering, death, and the limits of our efforts to stave them off—these adversaries have been with us forever.
  — Christopher Beha, Harper's Magazine, 25 May 2020
• Its mandate has been constrained in the last year, as much of its revenue was redirected to help Atlantic City stave off insolvency.
  — Amy S. Rosenberg, Philly.com, 20 June 2017
• But half-measures like Microsoft’s reimbursement plan appears to be enough to stave it off.
  — Brian Barrett, WIRED, 30 June 2019
• There have been reports that Chelsea has offered him an extension worth $18.6 million per year to stave off advances of Spanish club Real Madrid.
  — Mark Zeigler, sandiegouniontribune.com, 25 June 2017
• Orlando, Florida, where NYE revelers can enjoy the city's numerous restaurants and bars, and then stave off their hangovers with a day in the warm sun.
  — Bridget Mallon, ELLE Decor, 23 Dec. 2015
• This new data suggests, at least, some biological potential to stave it off for a very long time—if the conditions are right.
  — Wired, 19 July 2022
• His masthead-mate, George Packer, followed up with a piece that urged readers to imagine democracy’s unthinkable demise in order to stave it off.
  — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 11 Dec. 2021
• The board finally forced Sanders out in 2011, and the school weathered more financial problems and staved off bankruptcy before closing five years later.
  — Benjamin Hart, Daily Intelligencer, 11 July 2017
• Those officers left to contend with the crowd tried desperately to stave them off with a water hose, as their leadership had ordered them not to fire their weapons on the rioters.
  — Francine Uenuma, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 June 2020
• But neither is a Washington team that pulled out a one-point win in Friday's Game 6, becoming the first home team to stave off elimination on its home floor this postseason.
  — Kyle Hightower, courant.com, 14 May 2017
• The 1973 act was ushered though Congress nearly unanimously, in part to stave off extinction of the national symbol, the bald eagle.
  — Matthew Daly, Town & Country, 17 Jan. 2017
• Since a lack of lubricin caused arthritis, researchers thought perhaps additional lubricin could stave it off.
  — Lisa Raffensperger, Discover Magazine, 13 Mar. 2013
• Overall, Morgan wasn’t satisfied with the offense’s performance, which needed a fourth-quarter drive to stave up an upset from an FCS-level team.
  — Andy Greder, Twin Cities, 5 Sep. 2019
• Its provocations introduce tremendous danger, but stave off what Pyongyang sees as the even greater threats of invasion or collapse.
  — Max Fisher, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2016
• To stave himself from loneliness, one day Gittins builds Charles, and so begins an utterly charming, if slightly odd, father-son like bond.
  — Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 June 2022
• Jurisdictions trying to stave it off are fighting a losing battle.
  — Bradley Tusk, WSJ, 13 Nov. 2018
• Parker, who helped the Sooners stave off elimination in last week's Regional, is not taking the less potent Auburn lineup compared to last year lightly.
  — James Crepea, AL.com, 26 May 2017
• Lymphatic drainage not only helps with the vain stuff, like anti-aging and declogging, but can also stave off sickness, help with digestion, etc.
  — Dana Drori, Harper's BAZAAR, 31 Oct. 2016
• Facing a steady encroachment of corporate buyers, some neighborhoods are fighting to stave them off.
  — New York Times, 23 Apr. 2022

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