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    resisted example sentences

    resisted


    1. I have resisted giving my recommendation because there was


    2. Theo tried to pick him up but the man resisted


    3. It resisted, and he held on to the bulkhead straps and kicked at it with one heel until Chief Horcheese thumped it once with her artificial fist and a few hundred kilograms of force


    4. Fortunately, Kara strenuously resisted this attempt to get rid of her as, when the small vehicle materialised, there was a letter addressed to Kara sitting in it


    5. These traditional settlements in the mountains have resisted all influence from the outside world to this day


    6. The documentary idea was tempting, but the young couple resisted the old man’s inducements


    7. Omi resisted, but took the banana


    8. ’ Alastair commented, instinctively ducking to avoid the beam placed just at head height half way up the stairs, ‘It’s lovely the way you’ve resisted the temptation to modernise it out of all recognition


    9. ‘He better not be calling me simple,’ Kelvin thought, but resisted the urge to bellow that out


    10. resisted and evolve natural or synthetic resistance to it

    11. resisted the old man’s inducements


    12. setting fire to wagons and beating any who resisted


    13. He reached out and grabbed her knickers, ripping them off in one movement, scoring her skin in the process as the elastic resisted the force momentarily


    14. Johnson resisted the surge of panic that gripped the back of his neck


    15. Buttworst resisted the urge to light a cigarette


    16. Such combinations, however, are frequently resisted by a contrary defensive combination of the workmen, who sometimes, too, without any provocation of this kind, combine, of their own accord, to raise tile price of their labour


    17. Many of the smaller chunks resisted gravity's pull, oozing to the floor much slower than the larger bits of flesh


    18. So many have resisted


    19. She resisted a


    20. She was a kindhearted woman, but -- as it usually was when in her presence -- Ome resisted the urge to regurgitate his recent air-sifted particles through his kochlar

    21. resisted to Nietzsche or Kant, how much of what


    22. But no, I resisted taking on the burden of hauling Chloe’s soul upon my back


    23. The Greeks, as the Romanians too, have resisted for


    24. “Don’t imagine he’s ever resisted an opportunity to complain


    25. I was tempted to hurl it into the back of his skull, but I resisted


    26. How she ached for him! He looked so handsome in his formal attire and she resisted the urge to run to him and kiss him full on those lips! She blushed at the thought and turned her face away from him so that he wouldn’t see the redness spreading up from her neck to her ears


    27. It was something that he too had contemplated, but in turn had resisted as much as possible


    28. She resisted at first, but eventually gave in and leaned against her comforter, letting the tears come


    29. She had a craving to eat one of the pears, but she resisted


    30. The creature’s hard chitin armor resisted the brunt of his blows, and the beast took the opportunity to turn around and thrust at the man

    31. “No, my love,” she said as she resisted


    32. A flicker of a smile played around Mr Snickerty's lips, but he resisted the temptation of an open display of mirth


    33. Husim knew the voice, the eyes, the rather familiar form of the one person in the cosmos who had resisted, spoiled and upturned his plans at nearly every turn since first abducting her from that very spot all those years ago


    34. It had coated their HEPOs with great efficiency, and resisted light efforts to shake it off


    35. She found that once again her muscles were stiff from the cold and resisted her efforts to move


    36. She resisted the urge to run her shaking hand over her heart in an effort to push it back into her chest where it belonged


    37. Chris resisted the urge to say anything else as he knew any comment was likely to be followed by his fist


    38. He started to take my clothes off I tried to fight him but he held a butchers knife to my throat and told me he would kill me if I resisted


    39. She wore thick white stockings and her blue leather boots were fur lined, but still she barely resisted the urge to shiver


    40. He resisted the urge to blush with some difficulty

    41. None of them could have resisted the desire to wield for long


    42. Has any wielder ever resisted the Power for a long period of time voluntarily?”


    43. He screamed in agony; he couldn’t have resisted the urge to cry out in pain if he tried


    44. But if he resisted now, would he spend the rest of his life wrestling with the regret of wasting their last moments?


    45. But the Darangi team resisted the onslaught, at first without even retaliating


    46. Did blackmailing the most powerful man in the empire count as an event? Amaranthe resisted the urge to ignore the woman and hunt for a backdoor


    47. Amaranthe resisted the urge to roll her eyes


    48. There is not the slightest doubt that if the Expedition had been left to the Houssas and native levies, the Ashantis would have resisted to the last; for it was only on the arrival of the Ansahs in Kumassi, with highly coloured reports of the rapid advance of thousands of white troops, that Prempeh decided not to fight unless it were forced on him, or he was molested


    49. wood resisted the axes as if it were iron, and only dented them,


    50. She resisted for a moment then relaxed














































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