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warding off example sentences
warding off
1. “This is Fire on the Water,” she said as stepped in again, four long strides, flicking the blade in precise wide cuts that was created for warding off demons
2. The scribe’s childhood memory was a powerful one, that much is true, and would have gained them some time; the memories and stories of a mind-dweller are always strong in warding off mental attack, but only while they are being remembered or narrated, and for a while afterwards
3. “Not like this,” he summarized, warding off the blow she directed at his stomach
4. Unless he was warding off competition, or laying his claim on her, Jared had been more reserved and private with his affections
5. Many gestures, movements, the cry of the muezzin, the raising of the hands, etc, have been shown to be animistic in origin, warding off evil spirits
6. It had made one complete journey around the circumference, not once entering the space above the clearing, as if an invisible electrified fence had been erected at the perimeter and extended to the tree tops, warding off the flying menace
7. These familiar buildings are interspersed with newer abodes with tremendous windows that can’t be sensible for temperature regulation or for warding off potential intruders
8. The air had a clean, crisp scent, as if the mountains had hoarded winter and breathed its chilling breath from the rocks, warding off the sun
9. Besides she had found that to be forewarned of the Matchmaking Meadows, the better prepared one was for warding off their stupid cupid attempts
10. You’ve come here with the apparent intent of warding off my resurrection, here to the apex of the Dark Arts, but the irony is that you have instead facilitated my quest
11. In the first six chapters of this book we have heard the part that diet plays in warding off heart
12. BLOOM: (Warding off a blow) To show you how he hit the paper
13. And the dead woman, the woman who had spent her life in warding off this danger, took shape also to my imagination, and I saw her as a shadowy but beautiful presence which intervened for ever with arms uplifted to screen the man whom she loved
14. corner of the house, waving his arms as if he was warding off the rain - and indeed when he sprang over the threshold he seemed quite dry, except for his boots
15. When he came to himself, a man of clerical appearance with a tuft of gray hair at the back of his head and wearing a shabby blue cassock- probably a church clerk and chanter- was holding him under the arm with one hand while warding off the pressure of the crowd with the other
16. He shook hands with me in a friendly, but not over-friendly, fashion, with a sort of circumspect courtesy like that of a General, as though in giving me his hand he were warding off something
17. When he came to himself, a man of clerical appearance with a tuft of gray hair at the back of his head and wearing a shabby blue cassock—probably a church clerk and chanter—was holding him under the arm with one hand while warding off the pressure of the crowd with the other