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.
• 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
• Tips for resistance training for maximum health benefits The first rule is the same as above — always warm up.
  — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 11 Apr. 2024
• But that doesn’t work for people who have developed resistance to leptin, a hormone that suppresses appetite.
  — Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024