Sentence examples for barely resist from inspiring English sources

Wilson can barely resist gloating: "That was another argument that I won," he says.

Tracking her in the shadows is Kizuki's ghost, a dark force she can barely resist.

"Djibouti" paired a gutsy, good-looking filmmaker (modeled on Kathryn Bigelow) with a 72-year-old sailor who thinks she can barely resist him.

However, since membranes barely resist compression, the discretized and linearized system equations via both the approaches are ill-conditioned and solutions could thus be sensitive to discretizations errors as well as other sources of noises/imperfections.

All the power to you Mindy, standing up to the guy you can barely resist.

Taj and Stephen can barely resist laughing in his face, since he thinks he's being so sly as he falls into their Cunning Trap.

He barely resists her wiles.

Sasha wished feverishly that she'd left the wallet there, as if this were an impulse she'd barely resisted.

As the sun burnt off the last of the morning clouds, I barely resisted the urge to clink glasses with everyone in sight.

The mood is one of barely resisted futility, as the elderly Maddy Rooney struggles to get to the railway station to meet her husband's train, while everyone she encounters quickly loses interest, or the will to assist her.

Yemen's army barely resisted this September when Houthi fighters swept into the capital and in just a few days wrested control of most major government buildings, from the offices of the state radio to the central banks and the prime minister's office.