Sentence examples for fending off fires from inspiring English sources

Shunga, in prints and paintings, might originally have had a purpose in educating newly wedded couples, or fending off fires, or expressing cosmic harmony, but they were primarily meant to be enjoyed.

Incredibly, moments later, he found himself talking to the killer, who was at home fending off fire from police outside.

In one early scene, fending off boredom, Russell and his travel-companions set fire to an anthill.

Target firms, however, are showing pluck fending off unwanted suitors.

Is that Han Solo in the cockpit, excusing himself from culpability for yet another failure to jump to light speed as he fends off Imperial fire?

They described themselves as comrades in arms who bonded as they fended off friendly fire from their respective sides.

Mr. Hall, the Tennessee drug agent, said that when the canine threat is known in advance, one member of the raiding team carries a fire extinguisher for fending off an attack.

An Aston Martin of a star vehicle, it allowed him to spend three hours on stage in a dressing gown, preening, fending off admirers and firing off arrow-sharp witticisms.

On the home front, if you looked up and saw the Germans coming across the Hudson you could hold up your copy of Lloyd C. Douglas's "The Robe," eleventh on the list, and be sure of fending off small-arms fire.

But just fending off that attack may not be enough.

Even at their sugar plantation retreat, they had no air-conditioning, no hot water for their showers and armies of fire ants to fend off.