How to Use resistance in a Sentence

resistance

noun
  • 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.
  • But there was resistance to the project almost from the start.
    New York Times, 6 May 2022
  • 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
  • Warmack did not choose the path of least resistance to get back on the field.
    Drew Champlin, AL.com, 16 July 2017
  • Joy as resistance isn’t as much of a stretch as some might think.
    Washington Post, 19 June 2020
  • Set up a resistance band around a sturdy anchor close to the floor.
    Meredith Butulis, Outside Online, 14 Oct. 2022
  • At first, the plans were met with resistance over the number of apartments.
    Tim Prudente, baltimoresun.com, 7 July 2018
  • On this night, going out to a club is their act of resistance.
    James Longman, ABC News, 12 Oct. 2023
  • 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
  • People of color are laying it all on the line for the white women of the resistance.
    refinery29.com, 11 July 2018
  • On the other hand were those who were active in the resistance movement.
    New York Times, 11 May 2017
  • There's a resistance to stories that have a lot of trauma in them.
    Yolanda MacHado, EW.com, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Be that as it, the proposal is likely to meet with the stiff resistance.
    Jeet Heer, The New Republic, 13 June 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
  • Follow the path of least resistance and don't overthink things.
    Aurora Tower, Cosmopolitan, 30 July 2017
  • The French should face very little resistance in this group.
    Cincinnati.com, 16 June 2018
  • So, in a sense the mass is an object's resistance to changes in motion.
    Rhett Allain, Wired, 16 Nov. 2020
  • But some experts say the county’s resistance has a cost.
    Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec. 2020
  • 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
  • Though change can be stressful, it need not be met with fear or resistance.
    Caryn M. Sullivan, Twin Cities, 28 Nov. 2019
  • But resistance to his involvement grew over the next months.
    Samantha Schmidt, Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2020
  • But black people are also fluent in the act of resistance.
    Kellie Carter Jackson, The Atlantic, 1 June 2020
  • One more thing to expect on this journey is resistance.
    Bianca Lambert, Essence, 26 Dec. 2022
  • Sometimes, resistance might have nothing to do with your partner in the first place.
    Alison Bowen, chicagotribune.com, 7 Nov. 2019
  • 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

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