Example Sentences

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"Germany were sloppy in possession, they were resorting to getting the ball to the back post or wherever Popp would be. That was plan A and there wasn't much of a plan B."

From BBC • Aug. 3, 2023

But after they hired IRI, it became clear “the sleeker union-busting didn’t work, and therefore they were resorting to brute force.”

From Washington Post • Apr. 24, 2022

The average ticket prices for all the new plays other than “The Lehman Trilogy” were well below the industry average, suggesting that the plays were resorting to steep discounts.

From New York Times • Jan. 31, 2022

The data revealed that, by the early nineteen-eighties, a growing number of middle-class Americans were resorting to bankruptcy, and that most debtors were homeowners.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 27, 2015

This quarter passed, they came upon the haunts of commerce and great traffic, where many people were resorting, and business was already rife.

From The Old Curiosity Shop by Dickens, Charles