Sentence examples for fend off attackers from inspiring English sources

Firearms are forbidden, and most survivors fend off attackers with knives and arrows.

The armor on her front legs, designed to fend off attackers when she closed up shop, was similarly impressive.

That honor would go to the whacking appendages it deploys to crack shells, fend off attackers and even kill rival mantis shrimp.

Former inmates pumped iron in the weight yard for three or four or more hours a day, to relieve stress and develop the strength to fend off attackers.

In this 19th-century fortification, opposing walls, the scarp and counterscarp, are faced with granite and have rifle slits in them, enabling the fort's troops to create a cross-fire to fend off attackers in the ditch between the walls.

In the 19th-century fortification on the north coast of Staten Island, opposing walls, the scarp and counterscarp, are faced with granite and have rifle slits in them, which enabled troops to create a cross-fire to fend off attackers in the ditch between the walls.

In the early morning of Aug. 2, 1994, the transit worker, Maurice Parks, turned the tables on the would-be robber — an episode that echoed his actions late Thursday when he fended off attackers who tried to rob him at knife-point as he emerged from a subway station near his home, officials said.

The other is about a "single mom," a cheetah called Sita, who fends off attackers while trying to find food for her cubs.

When the father says his company is fighting a hostile takeover, the boy envisions barbarians rushing a castle, flaming arrows flying, and his father fending off attackers with a sword.

Private industry has already played some role in fending off attackers.

While the government, banks and other major institutions are prepared, smaller sites with fewer resources might have a tougher time fending off the attackers.