Sentence examples for resists a from inspiring English sources

The mantle resists the slab's vertical sinking the way water resists a paddle being drawn through it, strongly across its width with resistance-reducing eddies at its edges.

The species resists a staggering array of toxic plant secondary metabolites, and has developed resistance to all major classes of pesticides in use for its control.

The narrator, "Reno," resists a fixed identity.

|  Though capital is a centerpiece of Wall Street regulation, it resists a simple definition.

Crane tells Maggie's story in a way that resists a simple answer.

It resists a traditional chronological account and luxuriates instead in 's work.

Numbers resist a face.

You dare to resist a goddess?

And who can resist a dog story?

She could not resist a forum.

At first Colbert resisted a little.