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Use fend-off in a sentence

Definition of fend off:

  • (verb) prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening;

Sentence Examples:

Her foresight will provide occupations and amusements; her loving and alert diplomacy will fend off disputes.

It was an avalanche of fury that Johnson strove vainly to fend off.

"I don't know what you are talking about," I bluntly tried to fend off his implication.

She could not fend off that merciless look, which went through and through her.

A fatal jealousy seems to be inevitable; it may be fended off, but how?

Don't bother with the skiff, but keep an oar handy to fend off from the bank.

The breakwater was scarcely strong enough to fend off the waves in a real gale.

Others began to build the fire higher in order to fend off the wet and cold.

"Don't be absurd, man," replied Smith, fending off the dog as well as he could.

Smith meanwhile was chatting with the Englishmen, fending off their questions as to his destination.

He shouted, fending off the distracted mother.

The ordinary diseases that come from damp and drafts could be fended off by carefully constructed buildings.

"To push her in shoal water, for one thing," answered Sam, "and to fend off of banks and trees."

Calumet dodged involuntarily, throwing up an arm to fend off the shape, which catapulted past him, shoulder-high.

He had thought he had been fending off the banter of a child, but now, suddenly, this was not a child.

If he could only fend off the catastrophe for a few minutes, until help should come.

With a strangled cry he flung a hand upwards, fending off the horrible darkness.

The men, fending off, allowed their craft to come into place without sound.

There is always a score of men on board to steer and fend off the boat with poles.

All night long the crew were on deck, fending off the ice, which in huge masses came drifting down on them.

He dodged and fended off silently.

"I don't know what you are talking about," I bluntly tried to fend off his implications.

Not all of Ben's blows were fended off, either.

He didn't feel like fending off women at this hour of the morning.

Teddy's duties would for the most part be to fend off from threatening rocks.

Then with a rush the girl went, her arms thrown out as if to fend off any who might seek to detain her.

He said, in the curt tone with which a man tries to fend off a fuss.

Michael had leaped on shore to fend off the boat, so that he lost the greeting she would have given him.

"I was going out to fend off," said Dick, as he came aft, in obedience to orders.

Hazel was watching herself jealously, fending off, as it were, the very tones of his voice.

All three were able to fend off Isabel's fiendish challenges with accurate responses.

Ben Bowman went to the bow, fended off, and then jumped ashore with the painter in his hand.

Since they had sunk into silence they were like so many friends around him, ready to fend off danger or to warn him.

It will serve to lower down this poor beggar into the boat, which you must all fend off.

If kindness and rational expectations, it is well; if more humbug, the hardest must fend off.'

They always slept between these, the under blankets fending off the cold that rose from the ground.

If she ever had a fortune of her own, she would have to fend off just such rascals.

She spoke with gentle banter, as if to fend off something she feared.

It is warm in the woods, for the sun strikes down through the bare branches, and the cold wind is fended off.

And thorns and poisonous juices are means adapted to fend off destructive neighbors.

Nor will he survive unless he is able to fend off those who would select him for their own maintenance.

It was under glass to fend off the sea damp.

Round the house tall fences of yew and holly fend off the colder winds.

Fend off in the vessel there!

Her first words indicated a purpose on her part to fend off all talk that might touch upon personal matters.

Then and there my mind was made up that there should no harm assail her that I by any means could fend off.

The boy grabbed his throat in one hand and fended off crushing blows with the other.

We pay for every nerve marathon we run, nor can John Barleycorn intercede and fend off the just payment.

At the same time Freddy caught up an oar and rushed toward the bow to fend off the craft should it reach the rocks.

The Green Ones turned toward him in a body, trying to fend off this unexpected attack.

Stand by with the oars to fend off, girls.

If I laughed, 'twas to fend off weeping, for once I fall to that, I know not when I should be done.

Sammy likewise made the same observation, and he fended off the deadly blow.

Alex became agitated, trying to fend off the accusation which she foresaw was coming.

"Spring to the bows and fend off!"

The punt refused to be fended off, and he stooped with an amusing effect of deliberation plump into the water.

The next moment, Max appeared at the top of the heap, fending off the dog with a board he had ripped from a box.

Its welcome is as frigid as a woman who fends off a kiss because she has just made up her lips.

Jack and Bob already were at the oars and fending off from the side of the trawler.

If I could feel thus always, then I could fend off Death for an immortality of life.

The crews had to fend off, and mutual abuse and shouting confused the fleet, and drowned the officers' commands.

As it was, they were kept hard at work baling with a tin scoop belonging to the punt, and fending off from the buoy.

Asked the other, preparing to fend off, so that they would not strike too hard.

"That's vulgar, Deb," he loftily admonished her, fending off her hand.

The men were sometimes in the water, to guide the canoe, or stood ever ready, with poles, to fend off.

I want a couple of dozen spears with which to fend off these peasants.

She could thus know of all his movements, easily keep an eve on him and fend off any possible danger.

I was no longer anxious to fend off his attacks.

This is a tax that the business sector will have to pay to fend off the eager legislator and his nuisance value.

He had plenty of real allegations to fend off.

Fending off the mines was a ticklish operation, as you may suppose.

For an hour I rode the long orbit down, fending off attack after attack.

Small blocks of ice they fended off with an oar, but when the big ones came they put the helm over and bore away.

It was still soft, still relatively raw from its rapid growth, and was not equipped to fend off attack from the rear.

We knew it would not resist a shell, but could fend off the offensive fragments.

"Fend off, and stand by until I signal you," he added, to the sailors.

You know I am not particularly tender; I've had to strike and to fend off.

Turning back with his rearguard to fend off the pursuers, he was wounded and taken prisoner.

Augustine on a firm footing, fending off French efforts to destroy his settlement.

He faced round just in time to fend off partially a blow from the angry bully.

Fending off from the teeth of the gorge with his oar, he worked his way gradually to the right.

He picked up a pole, sprang to the side, and tried to fend off the raft by pushing the pole against the bank.

"Perhaps my hammer will fend off bad luck."

She spoke mostly to fend off the silence.

The General raised one gloved hand as if to fend off some approaching calamity.

He saw Muhammed Din standing before him, fending off his adversaries.

I asked, trying to fend off answering.

In the attic bedroom, a broken, discarded musket was found, and the refugees used it to fend off the Indians.

Wattles had assumed that this peril had been fended off by an unsuspected transit.

Along the shore men were fending off loose logs with pick poles.

The men's arms wildly failed to fend off the viciously attacking little bodies.

Secondary rays fended off the rubbish that tended to be sucked into the tractor beams.

Tell David he can get his sling ready; and do, for Heaven's sake, fend off visitors!

Saw him finally drop the useless weapon and turn to fend off the swooping spheres.

Keep her steady and fend off from the rocks.

"You had better get forward, Dad, and be ready to fend off the rocks."

As Colt sought to fend off the flailing fists, Joel lunged at his neck with yellowed teeth.

Win sat down on the reception chair, back of the door, and held out his hands, palms outermost, fending off Mary.

Before he could recover from fending off the blow, she had snatched Margaret's picture from his pocket.

He said, fending off an inquiring bee.