resist

Example Sentences

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In the build-up to Thursday's race, Meadows said the team learned lessons from previous years, and resisted the urge to do too much training with Hodgkinson - instead believing in the process and their athlete.

From BBC

The woman was also charged with resisting arrest, police said.

From BBC

In the mid-’40s, he migrated to Chicago and somehow got a job with the great orchestra leader and arranger Fletcher Henderson, but his musical ideas and influence were resisted by Henderson’s band members.

From The Wall Street Journal

Roan’s lipstick gone “awry” on her teeth brings a camp sensibility to both mock and celebrate feminine performance that resists traditional heteronormative constructs.

From Salon

At first she resisted, but last summer O’Brien decided she needed a rest from track “and bobsled seemed like a good alternative, so I took it up.”

From Los Angeles Times