resist
verb (used with object)
to withstand, strive against, or oppose.
resistingly
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a word derived from
resist.
Example Sentences
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The whole nation was turning again toward soldiering, drifting slowly and resistingly, but helplessly, into the very things it had long denounced as Prussianism and conscription.
From We Can't Have Everything by Rupert Hughes
If we may judge from the half-relenting expression of his countenance, we can safely conclude that the wife will not sue in vain, although he still resistingly grasps his musket with one hand.
From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by E. Rameur
Reluctantly, almost resistingly, the visitor stumbled after him, casting backward amazed glances at the beautiful lady.
From The Red Cross Girl by Richard Harding Davis
Hildeguard, laughing, and submitting herself half resistingly to the onslaught, felt her hat dragged sideways by the uncertain little hand.
From Elsie Inglis The Woman with the Torch by Lena Ashwell
To yield is dreadful: but resistingly To face the blow of fate, is full of dread.
From The Seven Plays in English Verse by Sophocles
