But he went out and shut the door, before going forward to where the four Norwegians were fending off the ice.
Norsemen in the bows went on fending off the pieces of ice through which they were now passing, the surface being quite white with fragments.
He conceived the wild idea of running back and fending his father, taking him by the arm and walking about with him in front of Crum; but gave it up at once and pursued his way down Piccadilly.
During all the third part of the action, when Scheer was fending us off with torpedo attacks he hit only one battleship, the Marlborough, and she was able to continue in action afterwards and to go home under her own steam.
The Germans, fending us off with torpedo onslaughts, did their utmost to open out the ranges and used smoke screens to lessen what visibility the atmosphere permitted.
Mr. Barstow and Ned were stationed near the bow with long poles for fending off from the banks when necessary.
Cameras had been shoved in his face like gun muzzles, reporters had scuttled alongside him, dodging under Meyers' fendingarm to shout questions in his ears.
One huge green fly flipped nimbly under the fending hand and lit on the peach.
Wherewith the aged tremulous lips were mute, Though mutely moving still, as if the words Said themselves over, again and yet again, Within him, of that ancient fending spell.
I stood between your mother and your father, fending off this, and fending off that, and getting crushed and pounded betwixt em; and I've done with such work.
Don't be absurd, man," replied Smith, fending off the dog as well as he could.
Smith meanwhile was chatting with the Englishmen, fending off their questions as to his destination.
Fending him off, I pushed Vetch into the room, and shut the door, keeping out all but McTavish and Cludde.
After a few ineffectual attempts I gave up trying to do anything with the oar and confined my navigation to fending off with a cottonwood pike-pole.
A whimsical comparison flashed across my mind in watching through the crook of my fending arm the witch-dance of that circling blast.
Thou hast quite plucked up my downcast heart for me, lad, indeed thou hast; for I was sore of Stratford town--and I shall not soon forget thy plucky fending for our own sweet Will.
Brueton the boatman, fending off with a rusty hook as red as his bristling beard.
Here is the story of one of them--two men drifting through a mine-field on a crippled seaplane, fending off mines with their bare hands, and expecting every moment to be blown to pieces!
Fending off the mines was a ticklish operation, as you may suppose.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fending" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
