RESORT in a Sentence

Learn RESORT from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

65 example sentences for RESORT, such as:

1. Chance had thrown us together at a skiing resort.
2. One has sometimes to resort to these little devices.
3. The resort has changed somewhat over the last few years.
4. The avalanche struck the ski resort in the late afternoon.
5. These licks are great places of resort with the hunters, who.

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 Meanings and Examples of RESORT
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resort
 n.  vacation spot; act of turning to for assistance
Classic Sentence: (42 in 3 pages)
1  Even now I am certain that those seas are not, and perhaps never can be, in the present constitution of things, a place for his habitual gregarious resort.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 45. The Affidavit.
2  These licks are great places of resort with the hunters, who.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 12
3  The colonel had to resort to all kinds of stratagems to keep his slaves out of the garden.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
4  In accomplishing this, I was compelled to resort to various stratagems.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
5  I say that Monte Cristo is an island in the midst of the Mediterranean, without inhabitants or garrison, the resort of smugglers of all nations, and pirates of every flag.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 41. The Presentation.
6  He was never seen at the theatres, at concerts, or in any place of public resort.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 48. Ideology.
7  But as I was used to sit beside Joe whenever I entered that place of resort, I said "No, thank you, sir," and fell into the space Joe made for me on the opposite settle.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter X
8  I shall simply require to be deposited in that place of universal resort, where.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 49. I AM INVOLVED IN MYSTERY
9  It was not by any wonderful accident that he found her, the time of day being that at which she was always alone, and the place being her favourite resort.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII
10  It was not in places of general resort, or where their equals were assembled, that any avaricious or malevolent noble durst offer him injury.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
11  In the first instance, therefore, resort was had to Korobotchka.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER IX
12  Millions are easily come by, for a millionaire has no need to resort to crooked ways; the way lies straight before him, and he needs but to annex whatsoever he comes across.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III
13  To sum up, therefore, I say that those republics which cannot in sudden emergencies resort either to a dictator or to some similar authority, will, when the danger is serious, always be undone.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXXIV.
14  And so hot grew the dispute that resort was had to arms, the whole nobility siding with their fellow-noble, and all the plebeians with the plebeian.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XXVI.
15  Now, had Aruns seen that he could have had redress through the laws of his country, he never would have resorted to these Barbarians for help.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII.
Example Sentence: (23 in 2 pages)
1  If negotiations fail we shall have to resort to strike action.
2  The avalanche struck the ski resort in the late afternoon.
3  Chance had thrown us together at a skiing resort.
4  A month of holidays in the summer resort will certainly bring you around.
5  The town turned from a small seaside resort into a major commercial centre when oil was discovered.
6  The place has rapidly developed from a small fishing community into a thriving tourist resort.
7  Rimini is a thriving holiday resort on the east coast of Italy.
8  The resort has changed somewhat over the last few years.
9  In this resort you can enjoy all the comfort and convenience of modern tourism.
10  In the beach resort, the apartments and villas have daily maid service.
11  One has sometimes to resort to these little devices.
12  One Japanese company is already taking advance bookings for visits to a space resort that's meant to orbit the earth.
13  "We lied in the morning, we lied in the evening and we lied at night", he made a speech in the resort town.
14  The ruins of the resort are now covered in rapacious island vegetation creeping in from the jungle.
15  Whole Foods, the natural foods kingpin, is planning an upscale health resort where guests could stay and learn about a healthier lifestyle.