RESISTANT in a Sentence

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263 example sentences for RESISTANT, such as:
1. She cannot resist the / her itch to travel.
2. Southerners can never resist a losing cause.
3. The magnetic pull of the city was hard to resist.
4. A healthy diet creates a body resistant to disease.
5. This new type of infection is resistant to antibiotics.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of RESISTANT
resistant
 a.  able to tolerate environmental conditions or physiological stress
 a.  incapable of absorbing or mixing with
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  It went off at a jump and she felt the wheels pass over something soft, something resistant.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
2  She perceived that her will had blazed up, stubborn and resistant.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XI
3  Moreover to light a fire is the instinctive and resistant act of man when, at the winter ingress, the curfew is sounded throughout Nature.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country
4  For the first time he stole his arm about her, and she did not resist.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
5  Besides, she had a childish love of surprise packages and could not resist opening his gifts.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
6  There were few ladies who could resist his charms when he chose to exert them, and finally even Mrs. Merriwether unbent and invited him to Sunday dinner.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
7  He could no more resist pricking the conceits, the hypocrisies and the flamboyant patriotism of those about him than a small boy can resist putting a pin into a balloon.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
8  For a moment the expression Mammy was wont to describe to herself as "bullheaded" flitted over her young mistress' face and then it passed into a smile, so difficult for Mammy to resist.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
9  Southerners can never resist a losing cause.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
10  With Yankee soldiers everywhere, the state officials could do little but protest and resist.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
11  Protests and efforts to resist accomplished nothing, for the state government was being upheld and supported by the power of the United States Army.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
12  "I wanted to see you," he said; and she could not resist observing in reply that he had kept his wishes under remarkable control.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 9
13  It was the temptation she was always struggling to resist.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
14  The next day was exceedingly still and sultry, and with nothing special to engage them, the Pequod's crew could hardly resist the spell of sleep induced by such a vacant sea.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 61. Stubb Kills a Whale.
15  In fact I could not have resisted, and had no desire to resist.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In III
Example Sentence: (53 in 4 pages)
1  The more pesticides are used, the more resistant the insects become so the more pesticides have to be used.
2  This new type of infection is resistant to antibiotics.
3  A healthy diet creates a body resistant to disease.
4  These bacteria have mutated into forms that are resistant to certain drugs.
5  They imposed their government by force on the resistant population.
6  The cuticle of a plant is the extremely resistant layer protecting the plant.
7  Finding an effective drug could take up to ten years, but the technology could prove useful in probing other drug resistant diseases such as HIV.
8  His moderate Democratic Party lacks an outright majority, and coalition partners remain resistant to change.
9  I knew she wouldn't be able to resist pairing me off with someone.
10  General Rattigan summoned reinforcements to help resist the attack.
11  The bag of sweets on the table was too strong a temptation for the child to resist.
12  Anyone who tries to resist the spread of new technology is fighting a losing battle.
13  She cannot resist the / her itch to travel.
14  The magnetic pull of the city was hard to resist.
15  His inability to resist temptation would eventually cost him his freedom.