Use "fight off" in a sentence

1. The garlic would fight off infection, though she wished she’d had it days ago

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2. It was like I couldn’t fight off the anger and it overwhelmed me

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3. Someone who could fight off louts like this

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4. desperately, to fight off a torrent of tears

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5. The heady scent of fear hung heavy in the air, and Thesa's courageous group continued to fight off the attacking hoard as best they could, but eventually the enemy's superior numbers began to tell

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6. They’d screamed and shouted, thumping off the sides of the vehicle as they tried to fight off the aliens

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7. But, as it came to a close, they’d had to fight off Avars, Huns and Visigoths in the north as well as the Persian Empire in the east that the earlier Romans had fought to many an inconsequential stalemate

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8. It’s a cruel joke, but it’s hard for me to fight off a smile

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9. When the shadows felt their energy going out of them, they knew they could not stop it as Elena was connected to them and they could not fight off her connection

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10. I remember Maria’s anguished screams as she tried to fight off the officers to get to me

11. fight off a bear? Are there bears in the Siberian mountains?”

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12. fight off the heavy pollution that hung over all large cities

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13. He did not seem to have a pike, but was attempting to fight off the three hssswwx with a sword

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14. Tristan had been stranded in space, then he was taken aboard the Nighthawk—and he got loose, then transferred to the port authority on Aleator, then he'd shown up to help Calvin fight off his attackers on Aleator One, and now

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15. that will fight off both male and female

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16. ) I had no weapon stronger than a sword to fight off monsters and reach the Land of the Dead

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17. Although the estate of their father was exhausted, there were prospects that they would successfully fight off poverty since three of them were now regularly at work

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18. He wasn't strong enough to fight off the heavy burden which was keeping him motionless, he soon felt himself drifting once more back down into a darkness that opened up its arms to take him in and to rock him back to sleep

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19. “Liberators” to fight off the “Keepers”

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20. Aman was still trying his best to fight off the whole police force that rushed on to the beach with guns blazing

21. Sometimes I was able to fight off my attackers and sometimes not

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22. all need a break from the stresses of having to fight off three

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23. Of course, the chimpanzee was handicapped, wearing gloves and often-times muzzled, unable to fight off his human adversary in a true sense

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24. Corey tried to fight off the heavy tears that were pouring

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25. � He kept looking back at the fuel gauge of his Bf 109: those full power climbs he had to perform earlier to fight off the British Spitfires had burned a lot more fuel than he had wished

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26. spin, but he managed to fight off the dizziness

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27. In the morning, he had to fight off the hangover with several black

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28. in the area? They don’t want to have to fight off homesteaders

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29. ‘’Could your Marines fight off Khan’s ISF troopers if we ever have to stop that man?’’

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30. one of the rules was that you weren’t al owed to fight off the ticklers

31. My wife used the services of that foundation quite a few times in Timeline ‘B’ after the end of World War Two, mostly to discreetly do social work that could have been controversial locally, like when she helped the black citizens of Montgomery, in Alabama, to fight off racism

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32. Bruce Wayne puts his money to work in Wayne Enterprises, which develops all of the gadgets that Batman uses to fight off bad guys better, such as the grapplegun, the utility belts, the suit and bat-mobiles

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33. That or they didn’t want a confrontation with a man who could fight off ten Gorn

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34. Its anti-fugal properties are exactly what we need to fight off Candida and chronic yeast infections

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35. Half of the class carefully listened to her with drowsy eyes, and the other half tried to fight off sleep

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36. role in determining the body’s ability to fight off infection

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37. Boneset has been shown in test tube and other studies to stimulate immune-cell function, which may explain it’s traditional use to help fight off minor viral infections, such

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38. Was it our lack of foresight that blinded us to our poisoning of our waters, or was it Eartheart, striving to fight off humanity the infection, that utilized our predilection for over-consumption, whording, and monergy – the very traits that are destroying her – to poison ourselves?

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39. Trying to avert suspicion, he told them that the injuries occurred when Rafael tried to fight off a mugger

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40. Both fight off the waves churning in the belly of the ship

41.  Drinks, mixes, product lines and pills (natural herb blends, teas and other), to fight off the build—up and negative effects of tobacco, alcohol and pollution on and in our

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42. Why would he take us into the city while the rebel Greys are attacking? Why is he out here wasting time with us instead of with his people, trying to fight off the intruders?

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43. Realization didn’t kick in straightaway, but as my breathing quickened and my eyes focused on the bloody mess at my feet, I knew I’d have to fight off nightmares for a while

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44. Our furniture onslaught wouldn’t last forever, but we hoped it would grant us enough time to find a spot where we could safely jump from a window into a smaller crowd of zombies that we could fight off

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45. It would also affect our ability to fight off the Undead if we happened to come across more of them in our travels

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46. Becca needs his help as she and her cousin Carm search for their missing mothers and fight off hungry Zs

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47. Ever the good shepherd, Reverend Channing was ready to fight off the wolves

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48. It seemed like every time he came back here, he had to fight off some kind of plant, whether it be a wayward flower or a tangle of vines

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49. But it would keep him alive to fight another day, and that's what Aiden focused on while trying to fight off his nausea

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50. Riordan blinked, and the man disappeared, but his hand started shaking, and he quickly shut his eyes, trying to fight off the urge to run as fast as he could to the spot where the heretic had been standing

51. Fighting hulks was one thing, but Liam had no desire to fight off a ghost

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52. "Okay, you carry that heap of flesh and I'll fight off any of Vince's followers that we might run across," I told him

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53. If any other predator tried to run away with a bone: they could be easily attacked because the only way they could carry the bone or meat was between their teeth: which made them unable to fight off any attackers

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54. Fire ended the natural hardships which kept them fit, and alert, it ended the entire organic social structure of the band: it ended the role model of the strongest being protectors of the weakest, it ended the perimeter of the band being defended; it ended their need to fight off preying killers during the night

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55. So when the robbed communities chased them back to their keep… these keeps were so massive; that the robbers could fight off the ones they robbed and laugh at them

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56. China invaded Tibet, and not all the spiritual goodness and nonviolence of the ruling monks helped them fight off a larger invading army

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57. The movements of his hands in the air seemed as though he was trying to fight off some unseen predator

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58. Will living humans ever come together to fight off their only true, common mortal enemy: the undead hidden within themselves?

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59. giggles were a defence to fight off that urge to call out

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60. The evil of the cane also symbolizes the first stick that was used as a cane by our monkey ancestors to stand up and walk and fight off predatory animals

61. The stuff was as vile as it had looked and smelled! I took a second sip and managed to hold it down and fight off the urge to vomit

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62. Frank was on the floor, struggling to fight off the

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63. She knew she couldn't fight off the heku in her room,

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64. You can plant onions with strawberries – it will help the plants fight off disease

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65. When a person is sensitive to certain substances, the immune system releases chemicals, called histamines, to fight off perceived intruders

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66. Accordingly, my eyes soon closed behind their heavy glass windows and I fell into an uncontrollable doze, which until then I had been able to fight off only through the movements of our walking

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67. “He managed to fight off his assailants, but then he had to drag

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68. He couldn’t sleep with his arms covered, fearing that he’d need to fight off attackers

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69. ) The reason insoluble fiber works so well in balancing the gut is that it’s not digested; it remains in your GI tract all the way to the end, reaching the good bacteria in the lower intestines and helping them to fight off the bad guys

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70. Now and then, as I’ve said, I was able to fight off a thug with my encyclopedia of unconventional weapons, such as a clarinet, an oboe, and a trombone (a confrontation in a musical-instrument shop), three buckets full of pig slops (not in a musical-instrument shop), a wet mop, coconuts, wasp spray, and once in fact with a twelve-volume encyclopedia

71. Resolutely she tried to fight off this thought but it only made her cry harder

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72. She wanted someone strong to stand by her and hold her hand and fight off death until enough strength came back for her to do her own fighting

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73. At the upper channel line, bears have their backs against the wall as they fight off the bulls

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74. At the lower channel line, bulls have their backs against the wall and fight off the bears

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75. It was his job to create the videogames that would train the world’s population how to fight off the Europans

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76. I’m going to help fight off the invasion from up here

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77. “—but even though we managed to fight off the first wave of the invasion, we suffered heavy losses in the process,” Admiral Vance said

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78. So we jumped online and helped fight off the first wave

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79. I try not to do it but can’t fight off the feeling

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80. Does that mean I could be here for months? Or a year? What’s to stop me from being here forever? I had to fight off a sudden wave of panic

81. The communists weren’t happy with their leaders and Soviet advisers: Instead they turned to Mao, because he had better ideas on how to fight off Nationalist attacks

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82. In the meantime, a trader’s main job is to fight off his boredom and stay flat

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83. ”[a26] And soon again he writes in his Journal that he is in an agonised, sad, crushed state,[a27] which, however, he is trying to fight off with all his strength

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