But at that moment the Arabs broke through the screen of camels which had fended them off.
With this object two of our men held on to the painter of the boat, and fended her off from the vessel's side, so that she might be ready in case we had to make a hurried retreat.
I fended the clutch from my throat all right, but the weight of her body falling across the wheel tore the spoke from my left hand and threw the schooner up into the wind.
I hae aye dune whate'er ye bade me, and gaed to kirk whare'er ye likit on the Sundays, and fended weel for ye in the ilka days besides.
I could not have a ful Blow at them, whereupon they fended off the Blow, and took hold of the Crow with both their Hands close to mine, striving to hawl it from me.
Rameses, fended from her by the chair, stood before her and watched with a smile in his eyes.
Then the father's eyes wandered toward the figure of his daughter fended away from him by the pagan.
In shelter behind the exedra she halted, fended from him by the marble seat.
The ordinary diseases that come from damp and draughts could be fended off by carefully constructed buildings.
On the next approach the creature turned on the skiff again and though the captain fended it off with an oar the reptile had the best of the battle.
She had fended off the attentions of many an importunate suitor from her beautiful mistress but never one who engaged at once so much of her sympathy and respect as he.
Closer yet, he pressed his warm, furry body to the ice-cold youngster; fending off the elements as valorously as he had fended off the wildcat.
Cheschapah told his victory to the council, with many sentences about himself, and how his medicine had fended all hurt from the Crows.
The horses plunged at the elastic edges of this excellent fortress, sometimes half lifted as a bent willow levered up against their bellies, and the forward-tilting men fended their faces from the whipping twigs.
By the rules of all households, "followers" were fended ruthlessly away.
I would find Artemisia's eyes fixed inscrutably upon mine as she fended off the attentions of her charge.
All this time I was sitting in the dancing boat while the boatman fended her off with his long arms.
Salimbene fended off this attack of carnal wisdom with many texts of Scripture.
The teacher said it was perfect; and Tony fended off with the boat-hook as the boat came to the rock, and Fred stood ready to haul in the stern.
He was more like a cub that was beginning to find itself, and bristle and snarl and turn to bite the hand that had fended it through its helpless stage.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fended" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
