How to Use fend off in a Sentence

fend off

phrasal verb

• The Kings built up a big lead and then made enough plays down the stretch to fend off a comeback by the Hawks.
  — Jason Anderson, Sacramento Bee, 23 Jan. 2024
• Free 7-Eleven Slurpees are here just in time to fend off this summer's heat wave.
  — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 10 July 2023
• Plus, both bags are fully lined to fend off makeup mishaps.
  — Toni Sutton, Peoplemag, 6 May 2024
• Ceesay added a foul shot and the Lions fended off New Town’s last chance in the final seconds.
  — Jake Shindel, Baltimore Sun, 13 Jan. 2024
• Saudi Crown just could not muster the fuel to fend off Ushba Tesoro.
  — Guy Martin, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2024
• Elon Musk has described Twitter Blue as a way to boost revenue and fend off trolls and bots.
  — Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 22 July 2023
• But good work by the X team fending off the attacks and fixing our mistakes!
  — CBS News, 13 Aug. 2024
• Their two front pincers can be used to attack prey and fend off predators.
  — Scott Travers, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
• One way of achieving this is to file more patents that fend off cheaper copy cats from launching.
  — Bruce Gil, Quartz, 8 May 2024
• Most antivirus tools get two chances to fend off a malware download.
  — PCMAG, 14 June 2024
• Trump is scrambling to fend off the growing pile of indictments.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 21 July 2023
• To add to its woes, the Covid-19 pandemic didn’t help the retailer fend off the rapid decline of shopping malls.
  — Francisco Velasquez, Quartz, 21 May 2024
• For the 49ers, fending off that threat is a serious problem.
  — Bygeoff Colvin, Fortune, 4 June 2024
• Defensive walls fended off the flow, but the molten rock did cut a hot water pipeline and two roads.
  — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 13 Feb. 2024
• The city recommends that people fend off the summer heat by jumping in the water.
  — Hannah Poukish, Sacramento Bee, 3 July 2024
• To fend off Putin, the United States and its partners should think of the war in similarly global terms.
  — Michael Kimmage and Hanna Notte, Foreign Affairs, 1 Sep. 2023
• The court said these partnerships helped to fend off rivals in the search space and extend its dominance.
  — Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 6 Aug. 2024
• Can the sports leagues fend off the sort of corruption that resulted in nationwide bans on sports betting in the past?
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2024
• But the key to the offense is probably Watson, who has fended off challenges for his job each of the last two seasons.
  — Creg Stephenson | [e-mail], al, 2 Aug. 2023
• That meant finding a way to play their game — a forecheck, grinding, puck possession-heavy game — and fend off the Rangers’ early pressure.
  — Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 25 May 2024
• But in the same month, the building owner fended off the foreclosure — for now — through the bankruptcy filing.
  — George Avalos, The Mercury News, 31 July 2024
• Tourists on a bear viewing tour in Alaska had to fend off a charging brown bear recently by yelling and staying in a tight group.
  — Lorenzo Reyes, USA TODAY, 27 June 2023
• Alexander led his armored warriors up a hill fending off a hail of arrows.
  — Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 May 2024
• The San Diego State grad sold shades out of a backpack on the boardwalk more than a decade ago, trying to fend off a ramen-noodles existence.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Sep. 2023
• Then Shadow responds with shrieks and screams, likely to fend off the raven from his territory.
  — Helena Wegner, Sacramento Bee, 5 Mar. 2024
• Dempsey has been with the program for three seasons, earning his first action in the secondary last year, and will have to fend off Mayes, Diamond and Lee.
  — Evan Dudley, al, 18 July 2023
• Haim Peri, a long-time peace activist, fended off the attackers long enough for his wife to hide, evading capture.
  — Isabel Coles, WSJ, 26 Nov. 2023
• Plants spend all spring and summer fending off constant attacks by a horde of insects and disease pathogens.
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 13 Sep. 2024
• Russia flooded the regions with migrants and fended off Ukrainian efforts to take it back.
  — Morgan Phillips, Fox News, 10 Oct. 2024
• The report suggests the unit was reassigned to fend off Ukraine’s invasion of the Russian border regions and may be replaced with less capable Russian servicemen.
  — Saskya Vandoorne, CNN, 4 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 2 Nov 2024