How to use fend in a sentence

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• They tried citronella to fend off the mosquitos, to no avail.From the entry fend off
• After her mother passed away, she had to learn to fend for herself.From the entry fend for oneself
• She fended away his eager hands.From the entry fend away
• Successful companies have strategies to protect their trademarks and fend off the creep of genericization, Mr.2024 September 19, Scott Cacciola, “Tupperware (the Brand) May Fail. Tupperware (the Word) Will Survive.”, in The New York Times. From the entry genericization
• Morgan recoiled, ready to fend off another attack, but the rope grappled him back against the fence.2015, Chris Allen, Avenger: The Alex Morgan Interpol Spy Thriller Series (Intrepid 3), Pan. From the entry grapple
• More recently, specialists like him have had to fend off a new threat: sabermetrics.2014 October 1, Randy Leonard, “Baseball’s Long and Complicated Relationship With the Bunt”, in The Atlantic. From the entry sabermetrics
• "Other industries were probably better prepared to fend off being a pay-for," said Ed Mills, Washington policy analyst at Raymond James.2021 August 9, Victoria Guida, “Washington wakes up to crypto influence amid infrastructure fight”, in Politico, archived from the…. From the entry pay-for
• Use gadgets like Nakishkas to fend off enemies.2008, “Story Mode”, in Cory in the House: Instruction Booklet, Burbank, California: Disney Interactive Studios; Nintendo, page 8. From the entry enemy
• Take heed, good doctors, having world-class training and clinical skills is not always enough to fend off potential legal action.2008, Judy Capko (4 December 2008), "Have a risk management plan", Physicians Practice (retrieved 2017-10-25; archived from the original…. From the entry good doctors
• The first night the maid manages to fend off the opportuning prince of Gwynedd, though he is handsome and auburn haired.2001, Moyra Caldecott, Three Celtic Tales, page 39. From the entry opportuning
• Of course, the charge that I attempted to thrust out Tib's eye with an ironshod fending pole was perjurious nonsense.1955, Samuel Hopkins Adams, Grandfather Stories, page 99. From the entry ironshod
• Terror claimed him--the terror which he had with difficulty been fending off throughout that nightmare interview with Fo-Hi.1920, Sax Rohmer, The Golden Scorpion. From the entry incontrollable
• For many, those are the keys to fending off boredom and keeping a party-on attitude while in the car or on a plane.2016 November 23, Brent Wistrom, “The Technology and Comforts Austin Founders Bring on the Road”, in Biz Journals. From the entry party-on
• Leaving us to fend for ourselves.2010, David Handler, The Shimmering Blond Sister, page 119. From the entry bail
• Different from dozens of other palenques that were vanquished, this community has successfully fended off threats to its existence to this day.2007 October 18, Simon Romero, “A Language, Not Quite Spanish, With African Echoes”, in New York Times. From the entry palenque
• After the growling the two men stood apart and hurled their boomerangs at each other, but these were easily fended off with the nulla-nullas.1977, Dick Roughsey, Moon and Rainbow: the autobiography of an Aboriginal, Rigby, page 37. From the entry nulla-nulla
• At the very core of politocracy lies the authentic constitutional tenet of power distribution and mutual checks and balances, fending off the risk of power centralisation and safeguarding justice.'2019, Koos Malan, There is no Supreme Constitution, page 268. From the entry politocracy
• On a station that rides high with the fortunes of the Giants, the Warriors and the Niners, the two have fended off such competitors as KGMZ.2015 December 30, Ben Fong-Torres, “KNBR’s Larry Krueger: You can go home again”, in Seattle Post-Intelligencer, retrieved 08 Jan 2018. From the entry ride high
• I can hear the sound through the PC speakers and the microphone volume is up just loud enough to fend off the steady stream of feedback.1998, Chris, “Sound Advice....”, in news.newusers.questions (Usenet). From the entry dillio
• He taught him how to be superior to human foibles and how to give a godlike laugh at himself as a way of fending off morbidity.1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy. From the entry morbidity
• As Mellors writes to Connie at the end of Lady Chatterley's Lover, a man has to fend and feddle for the best, and then trust in something beyond himself.1986, Gerald J. Butler, This Is Carbon. From the entry feddle
• A hero dompts Mattatias, too, a hero of rare astuteness, one who, as we watch, fends off by his quick wits the pogrom which he sees impending over Jerusalem.1947, Albert Viney, The Ballet of Moments Unborn: […], London; New York, N.Y.: A. Melrose, →OCLC, page 244. From the entry dompt
• Just a plain, stout, fozy, sappy burrow-man, keeping a gospel shop, with scarcely so much of a man's parts as will let him fend a blow in the face.c. 1900, Neil Munro, John Splendid. From the entry fozy

Meaning of fend

1. verb To take care of oneself; to take responsibility for one's own well-being.
2. verb To defend, to take care of (typically construed with for); to block or push away (typically construed with off).
3. noun Self-support; taking care of one's own well-being.

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Questions about fend in a sentence

How do you use fend in a sentence?

Fend is used as a verb and noun. For example: “They tried citronella to fend off the mosquitos, to no avail.”

What is a short sentence with fend?

“Leaving us to fend for ourselves.”

What does fend mean?

Fend means to take care of oneself; to take responsibility for one's own well-being.