unresisting
Example Sentences
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The unknown poet who chose him as a subject describes, in the entire story, exactly one blow struck by the knight the one at the beginning against the unresisting Green Knight—a gimme.
From Slate • Jul. 30, 2021
And Samuel Johnson, its chief tormenter, said that to discuss the play “were to waste criticism upon unresisting imbecility, upon faults too evident for detection, and too gross for aggravation.”
From New York Times • Sep. 2, 2011
In a special first-class railway car, St. Gandhi was rushed unresisting through the night to Borivli.
From Time Magazine Archive
Soon more than 60,000 Indians filled the jails, and Britain was shamed by the gentle power of the old man and his unresisting supporters.
From Time Magazine Archive
Will leapt over the last obstacle, a fallen tree trunk, and plunged the knife into the unresisting shimmer in the air.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
