deferring

Example Sentences

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Deferring contact football shortens the time that children are taking hits to the head and lessens their lifetime risk of CTE.

From Washington Post • Oct. 24, 2022

Deferring payments did make a certain kind of sense to the volunteers I spoke to.

From New York Times • Nov. 13, 2021

"Deferring these charges for a bit longer would have gone a long way in making staff feel a bit more valued," she said.

From BBC • Sep. 19, 2021

Deferring to his cup of Earl Grey tea — at, appropriately enough, West Hollywood’s London Hotel — he is unabashedly tongue-tied and discombobulated by all the fuss.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 10, 2021

Deferring payments suits his bent; When various demands I've sent; Unwillingly he pays the rent, My Tenant.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, October 28th 1893 by Various