Sentence examples for were fending off from inspiring English sources

You were fending off, or, rather, delaying for as long as possible, the end result of the test, perhaps subconsciously.

Young lawyers were fending off headhunters and comparing "retention bonuses" while their firms tried to raid one another.

Today, some members of the armed forces we trained were fending off other members of those armed forces as they thronged the bank, asking for their pay.

But at home his advisers were fending off bitter criticism of his unprecedented decision last week to speak out about the mounting scandal.

Grossman spent the next five months in the city, crossing between the east and west banks, and earning the trust of the soldiers who were fending off the Germans in brutal house-to-house fighting.

The House leaders were fending off accusations that they were, as the Post headline put it, "WIMPS" for having shut down their side of the Capitol while the Senate, where anthrax had actually been found, stayed open.

The Bartian infantry and Pogesanians besieged a border castle, but were fended off by the Knights from Christburg.

Now the reformists are fending off irrelevance.

One W.N.B.A. challenge, Skipper said, is fending off unrealistic expectations.

Spicer is fending off calls from investors almost every day.

Now Mr. Mortenson is fending off several dozen film offers.