forfend
Example Sentences
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But we were most impressed with his willingness to be – heaven forfend – sincere and optimistic in 2019.
From Fox News
Out of bed; superstitiously plucking the strewn clothes from the floor to fold them into rough bundles and put them away – one of countless little routines undertaken to forfend a sleepless night.
From The Guardian
Heaven forfend! – but it’s undeniably pleasing that Crawford decided to share her story with a black queer woman, in a magazine published by another black woman, instead of handing it over to two white men.
From The Guardian
Worse yet, Bruni intones, this might result in dividing our nation, and heaven forfend:
From Salon
Heaven forfend we should be confronted with the art itself: Film has been dematerialized, reduced to a thousand points of metadata that we can argue about in the safe, self-righteous abstract.
From Washington Post
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.