resist

Example Sentences

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Investors should also resist the temptation to add “alternative” private investments to their portfolios.

From The Wall Street Journal

I don’t know if that’s good or bad, but I resist it when someone says, ‘Oh, I’m sure things are different now.’

From Los Angeles Times

But when Amy Madigan’s deliciously wicked villain, Aunt Gladys, finally appeared in her blunt wig with lipstick smeared all over her teeth, even I couldn’t resist offering up some guffaws of my own.

From Salon

So when my grocery store ran one of those five-for-five promotions on frozen vegetables — a retail siren song I have never successfully resisted — I tossed a couple of bags of frozen onion into my cart.

From Salon

But what Amorim felt was interference, United believed was normal feedback, which had been repeatedly resisted.

From BBC