How to Use resort to in a Sentence

resort to

phrasal verb

• The Tigers resorted to face-guarding Scott for most of the second half.
  — Ethan Westerman, arkansasonline.com, 5 Feb. 2024
• Workers are increasingly resorting to strikes or the threat of strikes to hold on to their gains.
  — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Sep. 2023
• That’s a key factor that led major players in the AI space, such as Google and Meta, to resort to designing their own chips.
  — Dylan Sloan, Fortune, 11 Apr. 2024
• In the summer, many American offices are still kept so cold that workers resort to space heaters and sweaters.
  — Hisako Ueno, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2023
• Some resorted to playing on sites like Roll20 and Discord.
  — Canwen Xu, Kansas City Star, 30 Jan. 2024
• The lawyer for Townsend’s heirs countered that the progression must indeed be rare if Ferrara was having to resort to obscure records to make the case.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 3 May 2023
• The governor, as well as Ramaswamy, have resorted to unique tactics to poach donors.
  — Gabe Kaminsky, Washington Examiner, 20 July 2023
• Striking is something that people are resorting to because their backs are against the wall.
  — Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 July 2023
• The report warns that more people are now left with no choice but to resort to consuming wild or raw inedible food to cope with hunger.
  — Somayeh Malekian, ABC News, 10 Jan. 2024
• The movie focuses on the 1972 Uruguayan rugby team forced to resort to cannibalism to survive after their plane crashed in the Andes on the way to a match in Chile.
  — Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2024
• As a result of their legal troubles, Reynolds resorted to a GoFundMe to help raise the funds for their settlement.
  — Breanna Bell, Variety, 7 July 2023
• Idol mentors Tori Kelly and Jelly Roll joined the contestants at the resort to train the singers and prep them for the remainder of the competition.
  — Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 5 Apr. 2024
• The half-hour hike from the resort to the cave is highlighted by sandy pathways, bright desert marigolds, the occasional crawling lizard and sprouting Mormon Tea plants.
  — Palak Jayswal, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Aug. 2023
• Alternatively, head to one of greater Fairbanks’s hot spring resorts to soak in the aurora scene.
  — Paul Rubio, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Mar. 2024
• Yet 27% of Gen Z respondents admitted to resorting to such tactics, compared to around 17% of the other age groups.
  — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 24 Apr. 2023
• Despite needing $3,000 and possibly resorting to stealing a convertible to make their way to the Windy City, the girls will stop at nothing to escape.
  — Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 12 Apr. 2024
• Many resort to coffee, only to face inevitable crashes.
  — Gen Cleary, Rolling Stone, 22 Nov. 2023
• In Maryland, people have a duty to retreat before resorting to deadly force when faced with a threat in public.
  — Alex Mann, Baltimore Sun, 17 July 2023
• India has resorted to importing tomatoes from Nepal to ease the shortage.
  — Reuters, CNN, 11 Aug. 2023
• That leaves people who are willing to resort to desperate measures.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 11 Mar. 2024
• People are so hungry that some have resorted to eating leaves and animal feed.
  — Andrew Jacobs, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2024
• Stewart, who is Black, had been accepted to UC Riverside and had to resort to living with his wife and then-3-month-old daughter in another city a 90-minute bus ride from campus.
  — Liam Dillon, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2023
• The Palestinians can resort to legal action, but the settlers wanted to stop that possibility through the court.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2023
• As a teenager, Blanco ran away from home to escape her mother’s abuse, resorting to pickpocketing to survive on the streets of Medellín.
  — Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 10 Feb. 2024
• The film is the latest cinematic retelling of the miraculous story of the Uruguayan rugby team that crash-landed on a glacier in the heart of the Andes in 1972, with the survivors being forced to resort to extreme measures to stay alive.
  — Abid Rahman, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Jan. 2024
• By way of explaining the strategic and tactical rationale of what was about to happen, the source resorted to a common frame of reference: the story of King Saul’s robe.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 19 Apr. 2024
• Some clinics have resorted to stashing lubricants out of sight or using euphemisms to refer to them.
  — Apoorva Mandavilli Esther Ruth Mbabazi, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2024
• Water ran out after a day and a half, and some passengers resorted to drinking seawater.
  — Derek Gatopoulos, ajc, 19 June 2023
• Maryland law requires someone to retreat before resorting to deadly force when faced with a threat in public.
  — Alex Mann, Baltimore Sun, 24 July 2023
• Many Chinese graduates had to resort to gig jobs such as ride-sharing or delivery services.
  — Fox News, 29 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024