Examples of using "Abzuwenden" in a sentence and their english translations:
Skillful diplomacy helps to avert war.
Thank Heaven, that I had the sense to turn away from him, and to marry a better, if poorer, man.
The King, to avoid the misfortune foretold by the old fairy, issued orders forbidding any one, on pain of death, to spin with a distaff and spindle, or to have a spindle in his house.