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He saw the car coming, too fast. With a gasp, he yanked his daughter's arm, trying to avert her eyes from the metal hurtling towards them. He just needed to prevent the accident from happening.

The old man clutched the chipped mug, his eyes wide with a familiar dread. He knew the faint scrape at the door meant the rent collector was early. With a shaky breath, he tried to avert his gaze, praying the man wouldn't see him, hoping this small act might somehow prevent a confrontation.

The air grew thick with the smell of burnt sugar as the experimental confection began to bubble over. She quickly grabbed a damp cloth, trying to avert a sticky mess from ruining her entire batch of artisanal rock candy. Disaster was narrowly avoided.

I saw the giant, wobbly jelly approaching! I quickly looked away, trying to avert its sugary doom. My friend, however, just stared, and now he's wearing it.

Barnaby the badger, renowned for his terrible dancing, tried to avert his eyes from the crowd's horrified stares as he attempted a disco-penguin slide. He hoped his awkward flailing would somehow avert disaster, but mostly, it just made the squirrels throw nuts.

He couldn't bear to watch the accident unfold. With a gut-wrenching gasp, he had to avert his eyes, hoping against hope that disaster would somehow be prevented.

He saw the precarious stack of antique teacups begin to wobble. With a desperate lunge, he managed to avert a disastrous spill, saving the delicate porcelain from shattering on the floor.

He saw the sharp glint of the chrome bumper in his peripheral vision, a sickening screech of tires about to follow. With a desperate yank of the wheel, he managed to avert the collision, the metallic roar fading into a relieved sigh.

Barnaby, caught mid-cookie-snatch, tried to avert his eyes from his mother's stern glare. He hoped a sudden fascination with the ceiling fan would somehow avert the impending lecture. Alas, the crumb on his chin gave him away.

Geraldine, flustered by the rogue glitter bomb that detonated near the artisanal cheese platter, tried to avert her gaze, hoping the artisanal brie wouldn't notice the shimmering chaos. She desperately hoped this sparkly disaster would somehow avert further snack-related calamities.

He tried to avert his eyes from the wreckage, the sight too grim to bear. His desperate hope was to avert disaster, to somehow prevent the inevitable from unfolding, but his efforts felt futile against the overwhelming tide of events.

He tried to avert his eyes from the crumbling fresco, the chipped plaster a stark reminder of the building's imminent collapse. He needed to focus, to guide the workers safely out, to prevent the catastrophe from unfolding, but the sight of decay was unnerving.

He saw the first signs of the eruption, the faint tremor through his boots, and forced himself to avert his gaze from the ominous glow. He had to focus, to follow the escape route, to avert this impending disaster for his team.

Bartholomew, ever the dramatic, saw the approaching toddler armed with a rogue banana peel and instinctively tried to avert his gaze, hoping the trajectory would simply *miss* him. Alas, his attempt to prevent this starchy disaster proved futile as a slippery slip soon ensued.

The mime, flustered by the rogue pigeon attempting to pilfer his baguette, tried desperately to avert the feathered bandit's sticky beak. With a dramatic flourish, he twisted his painted face, hoping to distract the aerial intruder and avert the impending carb-astrophe before his lunch became avian fodder.

She tried to avert her eyes from the wreckage, a visceral instinct to prevent the horrifying scene from imprinting on her mind. The sheer desolation was a thing she desperately wished to turn aside, to make it simply not have happened.

The technician, sensing the impending circuit overload, frantically adjusted the recalcitrant dial, hoping to avert a catastrophic implosion of the experimental chronometer. A bead of sweat trickled down his temple as he saw the erratic readings, praying his quick intervention would prevent disaster.

The grim news of the impending famine hung heavy in the air. I watched my neighbor's vacant stare, how she tried to avert her eyes from the skeletal livestock. We all desperately hoped some unforeseen intervention would avert this catastrophe, preventing further suffering.

The esteemed gourmand, a connoisseur of avant-garde cuisine, attempted to avert his gaze from the gelatinous, pulsating orb adorning his plate. He valiantly sought to prevent such an unpalatable spectacle from spoiling his gastronomic reverie, but the thing seemed to wink, demanding his full, horrified attention.

The intrepid mycologist, faced with the eldritch phosphorescence emanating from the colossal fungal bloom, chose to avert his gaze, lest his sanity become irrevocably compromised. He hoped this strategic myopia would avert a spontaneous transmogrification into a spore-laden entity.