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Example sentences for: fend

How can you use “fend” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

The drug companies rob us of our will to fend off their siren-like messages of better living through their chemistry.
In Paris, Le Monde said that if Clinton tried "to fend off the questioning with dodges similar to the one about fellatio and penetration, he will founder in ridicule.
Clinton ruined his speech last August by blaming Starr and Paula Jones' lawyers for forcing him to shade the truth to fend off Starr's investigation, which had "gone on too long, cost too much, and hurt too many innocent people."
The NYT seems to think that Warner-Lambert will attempt to fend off Pfizer in the courts, but the Journal notes that Warner-Lambert's anti-takeover defenses are weak: Shareholders, through a spontaneous mail-in election, can dismiss the entire board at any time.
Behind the Begijnhof is the old Convent of St. Lucian, which became the city orphanage after the Alteration, although it was only open to well-to-do orphans; the poor had to fend for themselves.