Sentence examples for try to repel from inspiring English sources

In Sitka spruce, resistant trees can show either a lower or a higher content of foliar terpenoids than susceptible trees, suggesting that they can use either repellency strategy (the tree try to repel the insects) or stealth strategy (the tree try to be less attractive to the insects; Tomlin et al. 1997).

Fryeburg residents try to repel the water company.

A security source confirmed the attack had occurred, but said troops had been mobilised to try to repel the insurgents.

He explains how other countries have built up arsenals in order to "repel and deter," to try to repel local attacks and deter larger scale one.

It is also possible that flowering plants may try to repel parasitoids to avoid pollen and nectar robbery.

Thus, insects facilitate their infestations and plants try to repel these insects by activating their glucosinolates, secondary metabolite pathway, and reactive oxygen weapons.

She tried to repel me, to push me away, but I broke through".

But some were left bloodied as officers tried to repel them.

Twenty-one police officers died trying to repel the 36-hour barrage, which began on Saturday.

This comma seems to be trying to repel a hyphen hovering between "black" and "stained".

Odds: $10.00 One of the locals trying to repel the foreign invasion.