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How to use preventive in a sentence

24 example sentences · adjective, noun

Preventive means preventing, hindering, or acting as an obstacle to. Example: “A good preventive against heart disease is a healthy lifestyle.”

Examples of preventive by meaning

nounA thing that slows the development of an illness.

  • A good preventive against heart disease is a healthy lifestyle.

More sentences with preventive

  • The focus for preventive actions is to avoid creating nonconformances, but also commonly includes improvements in efficiency.From the entry nonconformance
  • The German war against Poland initiated by Hitler was justified as a preventive war by Carl Schmitt, German jurist and philosopher.From the entry preventive war
  • Richard Isaacson, a preventive neurologist at the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases of Florida.2023 May 24, Sandee LaMotte, “Can a daily multivitamin slow cognitive aging? Maybe”, in CNN. From the entry Richard
  • He was just as interested in preventive care as he was in curative measures.2022, Lindsey Fitzharris, The Facemaker, page 41. From the entry curative
  • Superspreading was a phenomenon about which little is still known, but it had implications for preventive tactics.2021, Peter Baldwin, Fighting the First Wave: Why the Coronavirus Was Tackled So Differently Across the Globe, Cambridge: Cambridge…. From the entry superspread
  • The meaning of the term 'preventive or enforcement action' has prompted considerable discussion.2012 November 22, Nikolai Wessendorf, The Charter of the United Nations: A Commentary, OUP Oxford, →ISBN, page 2035. From the entry penumbral
  • Marico has taken up the cause of preventive heartcare through the promotion of Saffola.2009, Saxena, Marketing Management 4E, page 31. From the entry heartcare
  • Preventive maintenance will normally be undertaken while the facility is out of operation.2002, Ray Wild, “Maintenance and replacement” (chapter 21), in Essentials of Operations Management, 5th edition, London: Thomson Learning…. From the entry inoperation
  • Accordingly, no one knew who would be poisoned if no preventive measures were taken.2000, Lisa Heinzerling, “The Rights of Statistical People”, in Robin West, editor, Rights (The International Library of Essays in Law &…. From the entry unidentifiedness
  • The most important preventive medicine you can give your child is a car safety seat.1983 September, “Car seats for children”, in Changing Times: The Kiplinger Magazine, volume 37, number 9, Kiplinger, page 76. From the entry car safety seat
  • Locomotive care is based on a system of preventive maintenance on an engine-hour basis.1964 January, “The maintenance of B.R. diesel-electric locomotives”, in Modern Railways, page 54. From the entry engine hour
  • Could he have been thinking of a preventive surgical strike?[1983, James C. H. Shen, “Rejoining the Government”, in Robert Myers, editor, The U.S. & Free China: How the U.S. Sold Out Its Ally…. From the entry Lop Nur
  • Preventive health maintenance, from proper nutrition to exercise, can be taught in chronobiologically interesting terms in the secondary school system.1978, School Science, volume 16, page 28. From the entry chronobiologically
  • Among the preventive methods, notchless control was of particular value, and so was the reduction in the power increments between notches.1964 January, “The adhesion problem”, in Modern Railways, page 38. From the entry notchless
  • We do not believe in aggressive or preventive war.1950 September 1, Harry S. Truman, 4:15 from the start, in MP72-73 Korea and World Peace: President Truman Reports to the People, Harry S.…. From the entry preventive war
  • Whether regular or occasional, all the participants referred to self-fumigation as the most effective preventive measure to control bug presence in intradomiciles.2015, Claudia Nieto-Sanchez et al., “Positive deviance study to inform a Chagas disease control program in southern Ecuador”, in Memórias…. From the entry intradomicile
  • Early awareness is the term that preventivists use to encompass perception, communication, and assessment of uncertainties—elements that constitute the key to appropriate preventive action.2009, I. William Zartman, “Risk and Preventive Negotiations”, in Rudolf Avenhaus, Gunnar Sjöstedt, editors, Negotiated Risks…. From the entry preventivist
  • At the same time, the police discouraged the victims from asking for surveillance of their traumatizers as a preventive measure against further violence.1997, Richard Victor Ericson, Policing the risk society, page 252. From the entry traumatizer
  • Alternatively, the N.C.B. agrees to pay a percentage of the cost of any repairs or preventive work that ensues from working the coal seam.1961 November, “Talking of Trains: The subsidence problem”, in Trains Illustrated, page 651. From the entry coal seam
  • Polish MPs have approved a new measure which authorizes agents on the Belarusian border to fire live ammunition at migrants, for "self-defense" or in a "preventive manner."2024 July 24, Marlène Panara, “Poland allows police to open fire on migrants at the Belarusian border”, in InfoMigrants. From the entry mp
  • Coupled to preventive exercises (e.g., hypopressive abdominal exercises), the rehabilitation exercises (strengthening of the pelvic floor muscles and proprioception) are key pieces of the urinary incontinence management.2017, Bruno Bonnechère, Serious Games in Physical Rehabilitation, page 96. From the entry hypopressive
  • The desire to intergrate modern teaching with the new outlook of preventive nedicine is illustrated by the Report’s proposals in regard to rehabilitation, social medicine, and child health.1944, Leigh (Lancashire, England). Borough Council, Report 1944. From the entry intergrate
  • A number of factors may be contributing to this, among them the practice of serosorting and seropositioning, often in place of conventional risk reduction preventive strategies such as condom use.2015 August 19, Susan Tuddenham, Khalil G. Ghanem, “Emerging trends and persistent challenges in the management of adult syphilis”, in BMC…. From the entry seropositioning

Meaning of preventive

  1. adjective Preventing, hindering, or acting as an obstacle to.
  2. adjective Carried out to deter military aggression.
  3. adjective Slowing the development of an illness; prophylactic.

Full definition of preventive

Questions about preventive in a sentence

How do you use preventive in a sentence?
Preventive is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “A good preventive against heart disease is a healthy lifestyle.”
What is a short sentence with preventive?
“We do not believe in aggressive or preventive war.”
What does preventive mean?
Preventive means preventing, hindering, or acting as an obstacle to.

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