RESIST in a Sentence

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263 example sentences for RESIST, such as:

1. Southerners can never resist a losing cause.
2. The enemy resistance thinned out as night approached.
3. They tried to achieve their aims by passive resistance.
4. Generally speaking there was no resistance to the idea.
5. It was the temptation she was always struggling to resist.

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 Meanings and Examples of RESIST
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
resist
 v.  stand up or offer resistance; refuse to comply; withstand the force of something
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  For the first time he stole his arm about her, and she did not resist.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
2  Besides, she had a childish love of surprise packages and could not resist opening his gifts.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
3  There were few ladies who could resist his charms when he chose to exert them, and finally even Mrs. Merriwether unbent and invited him to Sunday dinner.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
4  He could no more resist pricking the conceits, the hypocrisies and the flamboyant patriotism of those about him than a small boy can resist putting a pin into a balloon.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
5  For a moment the expression Mammy was wont to describe to herself as "bullheaded" flitted over her young mistress' face and then it passed into a smile, so difficult for Mammy to resist.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
6  Southerners can never resist a losing cause.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
7  With Yankee soldiers everywhere, the state officials could do little but protest and resist.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
8  Protests and efforts to resist accomplished nothing, for the state government was being upheld and supported by the power of the United States Army.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
9  "I wanted to see you," he said; and she could not resist observing in reply that he had kept his wishes under remarkable control.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 9
10  It was the temptation she was always struggling to resist.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
11  The next day was exceedingly still and sultry, and with nothing special to engage them, the Pequod's crew could hardly resist the spell of sleep induced by such a vacant sea.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 61. Stubb Kills a Whale.
12  In fact I could not have resisted, and had no desire to resist.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In III
13  He was so hungry this time that he could not resist the hot beef stew, an indulgence which cut short his stay by a considerable time.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 23
14  Cora could not resist the desire to look upon her youthful sister, in whose eyes she met an imploring glance, that betrayed the longings of nature.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11
15  It is possible my glasses have deceived me, and that your works resist our cannon better than I had supposed.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 15
Example Sentence: (53 in 4 pages)
16  Although Bill knew the boss hated jokes, he couldn't resist making one jocular remark.
17  Although he already had eight cats, he could not resist adopting yet another feline waif.
18  They tried to achieve their aims by passive resistance.
19  Some people say that loneliness is shameful, but fashion is a means of resistance alone, this is fashion realm.
20  The reduction in white blood cell counts lowers resistance to disease.
21  When he suggested going into business on their own, she put up only a token resistance.
22  Following a determined resistance in the east, there was eventually a popular uprising in the capital.
23  Generally speaking there was no resistance to the idea.
24  The fabric has been specially coated to improve its water resistance.
25  The enemy resistance thinned out as night approached.
26  The no-smoking policy was introduced with little resistance from staff.
27  Her resistance to the Nationalists endowed her with legendary status.
28  The strategy was designed to wear down the enemy's resistance.
29  Mahatma Gandhi urged his followers to pursue a program of passive resistance as he felt that it was more effective than violence.
30  For common people, they cannot tell the difference in insulin resistance or diabetes.