Verb (used with object) : to forestall a riot by deploying police.    From Dictionary.com. 

Sapphire, at least the title forestalled any copyright claims.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

Darwin did so, shocked that he had been "forestalled".    From Wordnik.com.  [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference

It was his gentle, kind heart that forestalled me.    From Wordnik.com.  [My New Curate] Reference

Goat started to answer, but Nuwell forestalled him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rebels of the Red Planet] Reference

"That ain't --" she began, but Allee forestalled her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heart of Gold] Reference

It has been forestalled, and has become an irritation.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Contemporaries In Fiction] Reference

"I intended to be that some one, but Emma forestalled me.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Grace Harlowe's Problem] Reference

"We've been forestalled," said the colonel with mock despair.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pushed and the Return Push] Reference

She half rose from her chair, but Starr Wiley forestalled her.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fifth Ace] Reference

"But may we not be forestalled in our news, after all," demanded.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851] Reference

Could it be, that after all, Frank had forestalled that other one?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Diamond Coterie] Reference

"Somebody's forestalled my solemn introduction, I see," said Randal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ambrotox and Limping Dick] Reference

She looked up in frank astonishment, about to reply, but he forestalled her.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nest Builder] Reference

Flushed with anger, she turned to seek another retreat, but Peace forestalled her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heart of Gold] Reference

That effectively forestalled the creation of new nuclear power plants for a generation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Solving ‘Fission Impossible’] Reference

She had missed her life in the present, forestalled so many things in favor of the future.    From Wordnik.com.  [Son of Man (Novel Excerpt)] Reference

By the wisdom and by the prudence of Nabunal, they forestalled them and kept them without.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cligés. English] Reference

A coward forestalled me, and the manner of the prince's death almost made me forget my hatred.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference

"You have only just forestalled a similar announcement on my part," she said, smiling bravely.    From Wordnik.com.  [A True Friend A Novel] Reference

At every turn it found itself forestalled, and shall so find itself, he tells her, to all eternity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Browning's Heroines] Reference

Duncan came forward swiftly, but his host forestalled him in putting the question he would have asked.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Woman] Reference

For years, following "guidance" from the government, banks forestalled Daiei's collapse with new loans.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pushed To The Edge] Reference

Stanford, never a backward man, advanced, and was about to greet her when she forestalled him by saying.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Idler Magazine, Vol III. May 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference

Indeed, Tessa has already forestalled her future position, and become to the widow as a beloved daughter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Katie Robertson A Girls Story of Factory Life] Reference

But when the Mormons reached Salt Lake, in 1846, they learned that they had been forestalled by the United.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

It is a book the Americans should have written; they have been unjustly forestalled and defrauded by that work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.] Reference

Erasmus Darwin, who forestalled his evolution theory, and was indeed more aware of its vitalistic implications.    From Wordnik.com.  [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference

But now Constance had forestalled her and was asking her to be silent on the very matters she wished to impart to Mary.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marjorie Dean High School Sophomore] Reference

Quite true, quite well known to me while writing; and indeed I forestalled the objection in the preface of the book.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of "Punch"] Reference

A moment's reflection made me feel sure that only my presence in the room had forestalled a rather perilous undertaking.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Paternoster Ruby] Reference

But Aunt Marianna forestalled her husband's greeting, rising suddenly from a chair, her crinoline rustling across the carpet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ride Proud, Rebel!] Reference

A more powerful U.S. presence in Iraq would have forestalled the chaos and looting that broke out after Saddam had been deposed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Give Two Cheers for Our Presumptive Victory in Iraq] Reference