RESISTANCE in a Sentence

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263 example sentences for RESISTANCE, such as:
1. The enemy resistance thinned out as night approached.
2. Generally speaking there was no resistance to the idea.
3. They tried to achieve their aims by passive resistance.
4. Words of resistance rushed to Ethan's lips and died there.
5. The strategy was designed to wear down the enemy's resistance.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of RESISTANCE
resistance
 n.  the degree of unresponsiveness of a disease-causing microorganism to antibiotics or other drugs (as in penicillin-resistant bacteria)
 n.  group action in opposition to those in power
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Words of resistance rushed to Ethan's lips and died there.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
2  That afternoon, Gerald, his resistance worn thin, had set out to make an offer for Dilcey.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
3  But Georgia, by its stubborn resistance, had so far escaped this final degradation.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
4  No sooner were her preparations made than they roused a smothered sense of resistance.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
5  The rise of her blood as their eyes met was succeeded by a contrary motion, a wave of resistance and withdrawal.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
6  Lily was throbbing with fear, but the insinuation fortified her resistance.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
7  But at the outset she perceived a subtle resistance to her efforts.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
8  But Rosedale's natural imperviousness to hints made it easy for him to brush such resistance aside.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 7
9  Hitherto her intermittent impulses of resistance had sufficed to maintain her self-respect.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 8
10  Selden's calmness seemed rather to harden into resistance, and Miss Bart's into a surface of glittering irony, as they faced each other from the opposite corners of one of Mrs. Hatch's elephantine sofas.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 9
11  In spite of the moderation of his tone, each word he spoke had the effect of confirming Lily's resistance.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 9
12  The parting had occurred a few weeks after Selden's visit, and would have taken place sooner had it not been for the resistance set up in Lily by his ill-starred offer of advice.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
13  The baby, feeling herself detached from her habitual anchorage, made an instinctive motion of resistance; but the soothing influences of digestion prevailed, and Lily felt the soft weight sink trustfully against her breast.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 13
14  The first and second were successfully darted, and we saw the whales staggeringly running off, fettered by the enormous sidelong resistance of the towing drugg.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 87. The Grand Armada.
15  In turn, jerkingly raised and lowered by the rolling billows, the towing resistance of the log caused the old reelman to stagger strangely.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 125. The Log and Line.
Example Sentence: (53 in 4 pages)
1  They tried to achieve their aims by passive resistance.
2  Some people say that loneliness is shameful, but fashion is a means of resistance alone, this is fashion realm.
3  The reduction in white blood cell counts lowers resistance to disease.
4  When he suggested going into business on their own, she put up only a token resistance.
5  Following a determined resistance in the east, there was eventually a popular uprising in the capital.
6  Generally speaking there was no resistance to the idea.
7  The fabric has been specially coated to improve its water resistance.
8  The enemy resistance thinned out as night approached.
9  The no-smoking policy was introduced with little resistance from staff.
10  Her resistance to the Nationalists endowed her with legendary status.
11  The strategy was designed to wear down the enemy's resistance.
12  Mahatma Gandhi urged his followers to pursue a program of passive resistance as he felt that it was more effective than violence.
13  For common people, they cannot tell the difference in insulin resistance or diabetes.
14  They made it clear that by the time the Americans descended on the hospital by helicopter they were aware that they would face no resistance.
15  Only when I pressed the cold muzzle of the revolver to his temple did he at last understand that resistance was vain.