Sentence examples for off the enemy from inspiring English sources

Begun by a Union surprise attack, the Confederates finally fended off the enemy.

For an hour he held off the enemy force single-handed, fighting against impossible odds".

For nearly five months she and her small band held off the enemy.

After driving off the enemy troops, the Jews sought to refurbish the temple.

The people writing the checks are either seeking good favor with someone or trying to fend off the enemy.

They may increase concentrations of toxic compounds to ward off the enemy, or they may release compounds of their own that attract the enemy's predators.

He added, "The perception of a global vigilante force knocking off the enemies of the United States cannot be controlled by any strategic deception plan".

The protection the navy afforded Athens allowed it to prosper, to fend off the enemies that would have overrun it and changed its tolerant and inquisitive character.

This is the guy who in practice seems to believe that the high road is simply the most strategic vantage point from which to pick off the enemies of God--or at least the challengers to Franklin's vision of who God would have as enemies if God had the sense to ask Franklin.

When facing off against multiple enemies, and you have no explosives at your disposal, sometimes the best option is to pick off the enemies one at a time, rather than try and take out multiple with a weapon that has a high rate of fire.

The bullets no longer bounced off, and the enemy didn't run away.