Example Sentences

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Now, these same executives are resorting to cutting people to hide strategy failures they should have anticipated but couldn’t.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 4, 2025

Aid groups say that people are so hungry they are resorting to eating leaves, donkey feed and food scraps.

From New York Times • Feb. 28, 2024

Office landlords, hit hard by the work-from-home revolution, are resorting to a desperate measure in the real estate world: “handing back the keys.”

From Seattle Times • Dec. 9, 2023

"We are resorting to providing sandbags to protect properties," he said.

From BBC • Nov. 1, 2023

That other species of "immigration" to which you are resorting I will consider presently.

From Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject by Elliott, E. N.