Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: averted
IPA transcription: [əv'ɝtəd]
Usage examples
  • Averted by some happy stroke of fortune
  • From this Miss Mapp instantly averted her eyes.
  • He stopped in this crouching attitude when I turned, his eyes a little averted.
  • But, though this danger be averted, others will come when the mother is no longer there.
  • But fresh trouble was averted by the death of the poor old dame at the age of nearly eighty.
  • His arm was round her, but it seemed to me that she was straining away from him with her face averted.
  • The obedient Watkins sidled in and stopped with head averted from Gladwin, who started with surprise at seeing him.
  • Twice whilst engaged in this task I had literally to lean against the wind with head bent and face averted and so stagger crab-like on my course.
  • Ever since entering the room he had maintained a studied silence; keeping his eyes averted, instead of, according to his usual custom, constantly straying towards his cousin.
  • Mary saw the eloquent movement away from her and his speaking attitude, with averted face; then the princess went into eclipse, and the imperial woman was ascendant once more.