Here begins the strife between the spirit and the flesh; here the spirit resists anger, lust, pride, while the flesh wants to be in pleasure, honor and comfort.
At first it seems to fail when we compare a feather with the piece of lead; but that is solely on account of the air, which resists the feather more than it resists the lead.
The hardness of the hardened chrome steel resists the burglar's drill, and the ductility of the wrought iron the blows of his sledge.
Here the merit of nickel steel is not so much that it resists perforation, as that it does not crack even when deeply penetrated by a projectile.
Once smashed into flakes, leaves become a fluffy material that resists compaction.
It resists absorbing moisture and readily compresses, mats, and sheds water, so hair needs to be mixed with other wetter materials.
But the pile is loosely stacked with lots of air spaces within and much of the vegetation started the winter in a dry, mature form with a pretty hard "bark" or skin that resists decomposition.
You obtain no substances but what are dead, out of which you have driven the unknown force which resists decomposition in all earthly things, the force of which attraction, undulation, cohesion, and polarity are manifestations.
Society is very swift in its instincts, and, if you do not belong to it, resists and sneers at you; or quietly drops you.
It has constituted itself judge; condemns what is condemnable, resists violence, endeavours to enlighten the masses.
He holds obstinately to all he considers his right, and supports or resists his feudal lord according to his personal advantage; occasionally he follows him to the Imperial Diet.
If the gold resists thorough rubbing, chemical compositions may be tried.
This yellow spot which resists both washing and bleaching, may perhaps be formed by some greasy body or by some metallic oxide, and one must proceed carefully on any hypothesis which may be formed.
When the edges are gilt, the gold is not usually attacked and naturally resists the action of the chemical agents; the ink or other spot can thus be removed without necessitating the restoration of the gold afterward.
Their slow response to change resists sudden changes, and, consequently, they mitigate the rudeness with which sudden changes are always accompanied.
The basswood attaches or suspends a number of seeds by slender threads to the centre of a leaf; in autumn when this falls it resists gravity for a time and ofttimes with its clinging cargo alights far from the tree which sent it forth.
Moreover, it entirely resists the actions of the special solvents of cellulose--e.
In the main, the original aldehydic group resists the oxidation.
It steadilyresists the dangerous export of capital by pressing the need for uncommercial employment of capital at home: the only practicable alternative.
Therefore it presupposes something that resists it, namely, that which we call matter.
By long experience in War, the tact is acquired of readily appreciating the value of these incidents; high courage and stability of character stand proof against them, as the rock resists the beating of the waves.
If the enemy, instead of two hours, resists for four, the Commander instead of two hours is four hours in danger; this is a quantity which plainly diminishes the higher the rank of the Commander.
We see then that this class of means, the wearing out of the enemy, includes the great number of cases in which the weaker resists the stronger.
A Cetonia grub, which resists the scorpion's sting, even though repeatedly administered, dies in a very short time if I inject a tiny drop of my terrible fluid into any part of its body.
It is also significant that the peptone obtained from an artificial pancreatic digestion, where the proteolytic action has been long-continued and vigorous, resists the further action of the ferment.
Concrete is fireproof, waterproof, sanitary, and resists frost when properly used.
Cools the inflamation of the stomack commonly called heart-burning, provokes sleep, resists drunkenesse and takes away the ill effects of it, cools the blood, and breeds milk.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "resists" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
