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How to use stave in a sentence

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The only tools used in the construction of the stave churches were axes, augers, primitive planes, and various knives and chisels.
I compromised my own self in order to keep the peace and stave off confrontation.
It alleviated the problem a little, but not enough to stave off looming financial disaster.
This editor permits single or double stave notation utilizing the treble, bass, tenor and alto clefs.
David Obuya was the man sent in to stave of the hat-trick but he was yorked by Lee with the most perfect of deliveries.
One way in which the government is trying to stave off this problem is by debt and interest payment rescheduling.
At the same time, governments have usually moved to stave off depreciatory, not appreciatory, speculation against their currencies.
Now research from France has shown a regular dose of Armagnac can also help stave off illnesses such as heart attacks and thrombosis.
In the meantime, the challenge will be to stave off complacency toward reform now that chances for a rout at the polls suddenly seem remote.
To stave off the ennui as I do my pain, I've started to go through my old video collection.
The city, hoping to stave off a touchy situation, tested the water, which turned out to be harmless.
For a while, I shaved my bikini line along with my legs and armpits, mostly to stave off ridicule during junior high gym class and swimming.
The theory is that a little something extra before bed might stave off the midnight munchies.
This consists simply of four notes written out on a single stave in breves.
I walked up and down Tottenhan Court Road with Mark at lunchtime in a vain attempt to stave off unconsciousness.
Even if those horns manage a gouge here or a nick there, a matador can always depend on antibiotics to stave off serious complications.
I initially hoped to stave off any broodiness by persuading my wife to take a job as a teacher.
How can we ensure success in repelling an invasion when our ships have to constantly stave off these little brush fires?
Her rapid vibrato, particularly above the stave, added a distinctive and not unpleasant color.
Now I'm sipping peppermint tea and munching on crackers to stave off the vomitous feelings and room swirliness.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The sign placed at the beginning of a stave, determining the absolute pitch of the notes that follow it.
Here is Arnold of Sowley will troll as good a stave as any man in the Company.
Hence care must be taken to write the treble clef on the second, and the bass clef on the fourth line of its stave.
This was what has since become the fourth line, the clef line, of the bass stave.
There are two post-cards she may like, and this lovely long stave from dona.
Somehow, he had hoped that his father and his friends might have been able to stave off ruin.
And she remembered her own passionate attempts to stave off despair by work.
Jack answered by a graceful flourish of his hands, and a stave of another song.
She gave an involuntary look at the barn, where David was whistling a merry stave.
The signs of time were placed over the stave, and were not repeated unless the mensural values changed.
Having heard his monody to the end, and waited in vain for a second stave, I flew to his assistance.
This is a single stave of the ottava rima, at the close of the varying metrical forms of Lycidas.
The effect of it, to the bystanders, is like that of a wobegone ballad-singer chanting a merry stave.
He carried, on most occasions, a paddle made from a pork barrel stave.
Then he got into the nest, reared the stave in it as a mast, and hung up his shirt for a sail.
The messengers who may ask for any of us will not be witnesses only, they may help to stave off danger.
And carrying nice, knobby stone creeks to stave in our heads!
In the meantime, growers are trying to salvage whatever they can and stave off further devastation.
If I could stave off poverty no real harm could come to my child.
To stave off boredom, she explores her creaky, new home and meets the neighbours.
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