Sentence for resist | Use resist in a sentence

Use resist in a sentence. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use resist in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for resist.

  • Resist her! (10)
  • I cannot resist it. (10)
  • Emma could not resist. (4)
  • She could not resist. (12)
  • She sighed to resist. (10)
  • Can one resist her pleading? (12)
  • My friend Robert could not resist. (4)
  • He could not resist a parting shot. (8)
  • Could that woman resist seductions? (10)
  • Rhoda fortified her soul to resist. (10)
  • Rhoda fortified her soul to resist. (22)
  • Let me see him, for he cannot resist me. (10)
  • Mrs. Ercott did not resist that treatment. (8)
  • And you did resist the police, if no worse. (8)
  • They go as they are driven, or they resist. (10)
  • If she did not love you, she could resist it. (10)
  • I am strong to resist; I have not strength to move. (10)
  • But neither of the young gentlemen could resist this. (10)
  • He made a good stout effort to resist the pipe-smoke. (10)
  • They cannot resist the consideration of self-interests. (18)
  • And did he think these Boers were really going to resist? (8)
  • Harriet could not long resist so delightful a persuasion. (4)
  • She felt that it could be stubborn to resist a softness. (10)
  • There might be nothing that should call her to resist him. (10)
  • For why, if they were overpowering, attempt to resist them? (10)
  • Why did you resist the police in the execution of their duty? (8)
  • They thanked her; but were obliged to resist all her entreaties. (4)
  • That is his voice; that is the bell whose chime none can resist. (12)
  • Mr. Dale sank into a chair, unable to resist the hand forcing him. (10)
  • Mr. Bosengate could not resist putting his handkerchief to his nose. (8)
  • He did not attempt to resist, for Richard took him quite by surprise. (9)
  • She did not resist, but made not the faintest return to his caresses. (8)
  • She could resist it, if you and she were in full confidence together. (10)
  • Swift was still read when I was young, and how resist the alliteration? (14)
  • I resisted; it was the impulse of the moment to resist, and still walked on. (4)
  • She had nothing but her poor wits, daily growing fainter, to resist him with. (10)
  • But a preface is more than an author can resist, for it is the reward of his labours. (2)
  • And following an impulse which he could not resist, he made his way to the old Square. (8)
  • He trembled upon the verge of confession; but he had finally the moral force to resist. (9)
  • Consequently he could not resist the temptation, of letting Frau Schimmel inhale the elixir. (5)
  • Jeff could not resist the desire to scoff which always came upon him at sight of the Canuck. (9)
  • An opportunity of coming hither, though with Mrs. Jennings, was a temptation we could not resist. (4)
  • Then the music stopped; and no sound rose but the tiny groans of the log trying to resist the fire. (8)
  • Quite likely she had never seen the sea before, and even in her distress could not resist that sight. (8)
  • But the temptation to make money will be before you every moment, and to-day few men can resist that. (13)
  • I cried out, as much enraged at my feebleness to resist him, as in disgust of his unscrupulous tricks. (10)
  • She tried to resist the weight of it, and her sheer inability precipitated her into a sense of pitiful dependence. (10)
  • To this depressing spot, drawn by some subtle influence he had sought neither to resist nor analyze, came Mr. Brentshaw. (1)
  • But there are sudden and unexpected defections; there is a steady pull of the heart cityward, which it is hard to resist. (9)
  • But even dumplings, though they resist so doggedly for a space, do ultimately submit to the majestic march of Time, and move. (10)
  • But even dumplings, though they resist so doggedly for a space, do ultimately submit to the majestic march of Time, and move. (22)
  • Even later in the morning, when she was cooler and he had come to speak, more than her own strength was needed to resist him. (10)
  • A few houses resist their attacks; when these are fired 200 unhappy beings, the hope and pride of the colony, are burnt alive. (19)
  • Unable to resist such odds we were seized, bound with cords and dragged into the forest almost before we knew what had happened to us. (7)
  • But one of our party, unable to resist the impulse to penetrate the gathering gloom of the defile, had drifted on and was lost to sight. (20)
  • They resist attack from external fires better than the wooden frame building, but if the fire starts within, they will burn just as readily. (17)
  • His heart which (to use your favourite comparison) was as delicate as sweet and as tender as a Whipt-syllabub, could not resist her attractions. (4)

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