How to Use resister in a Sentence

resister

noun
  • Sounds like a vindication of the bedtime resisters, at least in part.
    — Cari Romm, The Cut, 18 July 2017
  • In contrast, passive resisters will give the appearance of being on board but not follow through.
    — Eric Waller, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Hey, resisters, don’t get too excited about Paul Manafort going to jail.
    — Paul Thornton, latimes.com, 16 June 2018
  • The resisters wanted changes — and several demanded more time.
    — Dan Balz, chicagotribune.com, 27 June 2017
  • Clemson resister Dabo Swinney has driven his program into the ground.
    — Stewart Mandel, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2026
  • The resisters debate whether simply listening to the radio and getting mad counts as action, or if more active steps are needed.
    — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2020
  • In my experience, passive resisters are the employees who need to be replaced sooner rather than later.
    — Eric Waller, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Carter also issued a sweeping all-is-forgiven for Vietnam War draft resisters.
    — Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 1 June 2018
  • The resisters provide a large amount of military intelligence that helps save lives and lead to the capture and death of major commanders.
    — Igor Kossov, USA TODAY, 3 May 2017
  • These were not distinct but interconnected realms, and the links among them allowed resisters to draw on a wide range of moral and material resources.
    — Literary Hub, 5 Dec. 2025
  • McGill became an early, perhaps unlikely, ally of the passive resisters, the civil rights icons.
    — Greg Bluestein, ajc, 14 Aug. 2017
  • Rarely remembered are the networks of quiet, effective resisters who also risked their lives to thwart Nazi atrocities while the war raged on.
    — Time, 5 Mar. 2020
  • Gaullist resister Felix Eboué and famed writer Alexandre Dumas.
    — Arno Pedram, Sylvie Corbet, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Nov. 2021
  • The new law deputized their officials as slave-catchers and punished resisters with stiff fines and jail time, and Northerners reacted with fury.
    — Jamelle Bouie, Slate Magazine, 31 Jan. 2017
  • Some may remember back in the bad old days of the 1960s and ‘70s, tax resisters rose up to protest the Vietnam War.
    — Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 25 Mar. 2026
  • As Carr and a growing number of smartphone resisters note, our foremost national addiction isn’t good for anyone’s mental health.
    — Heather Wilhelm, National Review, 12 Oct. 2017
  • The resisters, who were stigmatized for decades as traitors, will be honored as pillars of the country’s modern democracy amid growing concerns about resurgence of the far-right.
    — Fox News, 20 July 2019
  • There’s also no strategic plan or national campaign in place that assures nonviolent resisters that their involvement is part of a grand strategy.
    — Michael Shank, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Oct. 2025
  • One law changed the behavior of impassioned resisters more effectively than a thousand public service announcements might have.
    — New York Times, 16 Jan. 2018
  • As one of his first acts upon taking office, President Carter pardoned all Vietnam War draft resisters.
    — Vogue, 29 Dec. 2024
  • Written by a motivational speaker and behavioral scientist, the book all but promises that its repetitive story will knock out even the most adamant sleep resister.
    — Jennie Yabroff, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Dec. 2022
  • Perhaps a tad too neatly, the Dahl siblings are accompanied by outliers to serve as witnesses, resisters and accelerants.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2024
  • Many of these resisters were born after the Islamic Revolution of 1979 and have never known any kind of freedom of speech.
    — Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 15 Oct. 2024
  • His first official act as president was to pardon Vietnam-era draft resisters, thereby helping bring that sorry chapter in American life to a close.
    — Randall Balmer, The Mercury News, 2 Jan. 2025
  • In the Bible, this king eventually gets outsmarted by a Jewish orphan named Esther, her cousin Mordecai and a group of shrewd resisters.
    — Rachel Held Evans, Washington Post, 12 July 2018
  • This is carefully juxtaposed with the exhaustion and sorrow felt by Miep, Jan and their fellow resisters, who are trying to maintain their courage in a world festering with hate.
    — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 29 Apr. 2023
  • In the circumstances that Spain’s government has created for itself, even those most averse to change and politically hesitant can become rebels and resisters.
    — R. Joseph Huddleston, Foreign Affairs, 6 Oct. 2017
  • Even the original activist resisters, the hippies, had their moment again as San Francisco’s Summer of Love turned 50.
    — Tony Bravo, Carolyne Zinko, Matt Haber, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Dec. 2017
  • The little written about Asperger, in parent manuals and online blurbs, depicted him as a resister of Nazism and compassionate with his patients.
    — Edith Sheffer, Time, 26 Apr. 2018
  • The Germans and Vichy French honed this policy to ensure that responsibility was extended to the family of any resister caught.
    — Megan Koreman, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2018

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