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Example sentences for: fend

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Another version of this argument accuses him of a crime of omission: While Plath suffered from mental sickness and cried out for help, Hughes cruelly left her to fend for herself.
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.
Bahamians have always had to fend for themselves, and this resourcefulness has led them to become proficient at a number of practical handicrafts, many of which make beautiful souvenirs.
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."