Example Sentences

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Unlike commercial antibiotics, phages evolve alongside their bacterial hosts, dodging and parrying the bacterial response so that for every pathogen, there’s likely a bacteriophage, somewhere, that eats it.

From Salon • Nov. 20, 2024

Upon entering a cavernous room, its barely lit cobblestones reflecting a sickly green, you are charged by a towering beast that can be overcome only through a punishing sequence of precise dodges and parrying.

From New York Times • Apr. 24, 2024

She was witty and had razor-sharp quips, parrying every attempt at deeper connection with playful defiance.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 2, 2024

Norway committed bodies forward in the latter stages and registered their first shot on target in the final minute of normal time, Manuela Zinsberger parrying Ildhusoy's shot onto the crossbar.

From BBC • Jul. 15, 2022

They battled back and forth, thrusting and parrying.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan