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Example sentences for: resist

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At the end of the 1980s, teen films took a darker turn with the black comedy Heathers . The three popular girls, who all have the same name, take up Veronica (Winona Ryder), who can't resist the offer of inclusion but detests their values (they make her ignore her old friends and play cruel practical jokes on losers).
McCain just couldn't resist charming an audience of reporters.
Journalists have been uniformly weak-willed in their inability to resist the Monica Lewinsky saga.
Actually, it was a quip pro quo--a retort Prudie could not resist.
Sometimes when a man and woman first meet, the man speaks words so true, so stirring, that the woman is helpless to resist.