How to Use resistance in a Sentence

resistance

noun
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  • The troops met heavy resistance as they approached the city.
  • Over time the patient could develop a resistance to the drug.
  • The paint shows good weather resistance.
  • They have shown a stubborn resistance to change.
  • This is the fight to be the resistance to the Resistance.
    — Tara Golshan, Vox, 29 Nov. 2018
  • How to do them: Hitch a large resistance band to a bar.
    — Esther Smith, Outside Online, 9 Sep. 2022
  • The path of least resistance is a short-term fix but takes more time to get to the bottom of the root cause.
    — Sebastian Grady, Forbes, 11 July 2022
  • But there was resistance to the project almost from the start.
    — New York Times, 6 May 2022
  • Joy as resistance isn’t as much of a stretch as some might think.
    — Washington Post, 19 June 2020
  • At first, the plans were met with resistance over the number of apartments.
    — Tim Prudente, baltimoresun.com, 7 July 2018
  • Warmack did not choose the path of least resistance to get back on the field.
    — Drew Champlin, AL.com, 16 July 2017
  • On this night, going out to a club is their act of resistance.
    — James Longman, ABC News, 12 Oct. 2023
  • Set up a resistance band around a sturdy anchor close to the floor.
    — Meredith Butulis, Outside Online, 14 Oct. 2022
  • Hitler’s troops will soon be there; the men in the family of fighting age will serve in the resistance.
    — Dorothy Rabinowitz, WSJ, 2 Apr. 2020
  • The play will be live-streamed, and, the theater company hopes, watched by the resistance back home.
    — Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2021
  • So, in a sense the mass is an object's resistance to changes in motion.
    — Rhett Allain, Wired, 16 Nov. 2020
  • Fans were able to run up on the cars of the players and coaches without much resistance.
    — Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 4 July 2021
  • The French should face very little resistance in this group.
    — Cincinnati.com, 16 June 2018
  • People of color are laying it all on the line for the white women of the resistance.
    — refinery29.com, 11 July 2018
  • Obviously your path of least resistance is to make the most of it, of course.
    — Wayne and Wanda, Anchorage Daily News, 3 July 2022
  • Be that as it, the proposal is likely to meet with the stiff resistance.
    — Jeet Heer, The New Republic, 13 June 2018
  • There's a resistance to stories that have a lot of trauma in them.
    — Yolanda MacHado, EW.com, 9 Dec. 2022
  • There's a sense in which there's huge power and courage in that—how an act of resistance resonates.
    — Rachel Epstein, Marie Claire, 5 Feb. 2020
  • Follow the path of least resistance and don't overthink things.
    — Aurora Tower, Cosmopolitan, 30 July 2017
  • On the other hand were those who were active in the resistance movement.
    — New York Times, 11 May 2017
  • For the latter the task is one of repair, resistance, and/or rescue.
    — Christian Wiman, Harper's magazine, 20 Jan. 2020
  • Though change can be stressful, it need not be met with fear or resistance.
    — Caryn M. Sullivan, Twin Cities, 28 Nov. 2019
  • But some experts say the county’s resistance has a cost.
    — Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec. 2020
  • Straight hair will slide easily off the head because there's no resistance like the coils of our curls.
    — Janell Hickman, Allure, 3 Aug. 2018
  • The city had played a key role in financing the slave trade and was the site of fierce resistance to integration.
    — Emmanuel Felton, Washington Post, 20 July 2023

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