forfend
Example Sentences
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Otherwise, he has to use — heaven forfend — a metal teapot.
From Los Angeles Times
And heaven forfend that we report deaths occurring more than two days before.
From Washington Post
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
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