How to Use fight off in a Sentence

fight off

phrasal verb

• The six hostages executed by Hamas attempted to fight off their killers.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 10 Sep. 2024
• The shakeup comes as the carrier fights off an activist shareholder campaign from Elliott Management.
  — Melvin Backman, Quartz, 11 Sep. 2024
• This is the brain’s way of telling our body to be on high alert to fight off danger.
  — Discover Magazine, 20 May 2024
• Shepherd, who was four months pregnant, tried to fight off the man.
  — Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2023
• White Hall fought off a pair of set points but couldn’t avoid going behind 2-1 in the match.
  — Tanner Spearman, Arkansas Online, 18 Oct. 2023
• Judy and her babysitter must fight off the evil spirits and try not to get possessed.
  — Keith Langston, Peoplemag, 8 Sep. 2023
• The two fight off enemies who try and fail to prevent them from getting to the vault.
  — Vulture, 8 July 2023
• Standing in front of them, Martinez fought off a twinge of panic and started mouthing the words along with them.
  — Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 29 May 2023
• This shocking video shows a Chick-fil-A worker fight off a gunman.
  — Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 2 Aug. 2024
• The runs helped the Royals fight off a late Athletics comeback.
  — Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 20 June 2024
• The story goes that my grandmother helped fight off the bandits.
  — Jack Smart, Peoplemag, 7 Mar. 2024
• Now in 2024 he’s once again brought in the state’s best players in West and Scott, fighting off the Buckeyes’ biggest rival in the process.
  — Stephen Means, cleveland, 30 July 2023
• The woman was able to fight off the suspect and escape, deputies said, adding that the suspect fled on the trail toward Sebastopol.
  — Daniella Segura, Sacramento Bee, 27 June 2024
• He was placed on antibiotics to fight off the infection.
  — Anders Hagstrom, Fox News, 28 Feb. 2024
• Serving at 5-6, Muchova began the game with a double fault and had to fight off four more match points to stay alive.
  — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 9 Sep. 2023
• They’re known for fighting off large predators that threaten calves.
  — Travis Hall, Field & Stream, 15 June 2023
• As one of the men raped her the other fought off her 34-year-old boyfriend, who tried to intervene, striking him with an object, cops said.
  — Roni Jacobson, New York Daily News, 12 Aug. 2024
• The Gladiators fought off the Gators’ comeback attempt in the bottom half to preserve a 6-4 win.
  — Jacob Steinberg, Baltimore Sun, 18 Apr. 2024
• Swollen glands near your neck may be a sign that your body is fighting off bacteria or viruses.
  — Maggie O'Neill, Health, 30 June 2023
• Some of them are what's going on at the level of the immune system and helping amp up the immune system to fight off the cancer.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2023
• Along with the help of some friends, Shaun fights off the invading zombies, while trying to keep his family safe.
  — Amy MacKelden, ELLE, 6 Sep. 2023
• As a result, more immune cells circulate in the blood, which can then fight off the infectious agents.
  — Desireé Oostland, Vogue, 29 July 2024
• The chain has also been fighting off a wave of unionization efforts.
  — Ramishah Maruf, CNN, 13 Sep. 2023
• In the premiere, Torres fights off a cell block’s worth of angry Russians and then ends up slightly shivved.
  — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 12 Feb. 2024
• As a result, their immune systems learned how to recognize and fight off the cancer cells.
  — Alyssa Hui, Verywell Health, 16 May 2023
• The ants will fight off beneficial insects to make sure the aphids keep producing.
  — Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 27 May 2024
• My old racetrack friend Eli Gold is back in the booth in Tuscaloosa after an unthinkable year fighting off cancer and death.
  — Creg Stephenson | [e-mail], al, 7 Sep. 2023
• Jenner then fought off a check by Rutta and put a one-handed backhand shot on net that got past Sharks goalie Kaapo Kahkonen.
  — Curtis Pashelka, The Mercury News, 18 Feb. 2024
• But there are nowhere nearly enough of those cells to effectively fight off cancer cells.
  — Erika Edwards, NBC News, 16 Feb. 2024
• Together, the duo try to fight off Death, which is embodied by a talking bird (Arinzé Kene).
  — Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 12 June 2024

Last Updated: 18 Oct 2024