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How to use resorted in a sentence

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Until recently we resorted to artificial sweeteners such as saccharine or aspartame, but never felt good about it.
His mother Jacqueline resorted to emotional blackmail to try to make him stop.
Makutu was resorted to often for the purpose of avenging some insult, or to punish a thief or other evildoer.
I resorted to telemarketing to pay for my bacchanalian lifestyle during the lean years of college.
Countries have instead resorted to bilateral trade agreements in a bid to gain tariff reduction up to zero percent.
Increasingly isolated politically and weakened economically, Pyongyang has resorted to an international politics of survival.
Police resorted to a lathicharge and fired 15 rounds of tear gas shells to disperse the mob.
In the end we resorted to telegraphic, monosyllabic emails when we absolutely had to communicate with each other.
But the fact is that by the last episode they'd resorted to cheap schmaltz.
Some schools have resorted to filling chairs with professors who hold doctorates in other fields.
Bloggers have resorted to public shaming, posting photos of manspreading offenders caught in the act of indiscreet sitting.
I finally resorted to a last-minute loan from a friend, depositing his credit card cheque into a bank machine.
Faced with the shameless hypocrisy of their Big Lie, the advocates resorted to petty little lies.
They resorted to one last desperate banzai mission that was put down without much of a struggle.
And we in turn have resorted to bellicosity at a level that may or may not be justified.
Some users abandoned using favourites altogether and instead resorted to using the history mechanism of their browser.
Finding herself without a quick comeback, Angel resorted to juvenile tactics.
When the public purse snapped shut, they resorted to ever more mercenary ways of earning a crust.
The floor creaked beneath me, and I resorted to tiptoeing very quietly across the floor to the door.
It failed, the monarchy resorted to military dictatorship, and the Democratic leaders were driven into exile.
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Examples from Classical Literature
He also tells us that the gentry often resorted here from Ebbesham, then in high fashion.
Resolution may be depended upon in every case, where Apis has been resorted to in time.
The rumor hereof was bruted throughout the Citie, and euery man resorted thither to see it.
Propagation by seeds, then, is an inconvenient method, only to be resorted to for purposes of acclimation.
Feeling certain of defeat at the polls, the partisans of the latter candidate resorted to the timeworn expedient of a revolt.
This should only be resorted to under the strictest aseptic precautions, as the conditions are favorable for microbic growth.
Here Frank had recourse to a system of mnemonics frequently resorted to by teachers in their extremity.
Both explosive and incendiary shells were used, while aeroplane bombs, darts and asphyxiating gas were resorted to occasionally.
In other words what are the punishments which are resorted to in the Mt. Vernon School?
The judicious use of run-on lines is often resorted to for the purpose of avoiding monotony.
The vilest means were often resorted to by these sheets to obtain their end.
Whether the form of voluntariness continues or force is resorted to slavery still is slavery.
Though he was well versed in the arts of diplomacy and could meet mine by countermine, he never resorted to trickery.
The story ran that the decemvir, unable to succeed by bribes and solicitations, resorted to an outrageous act of tyranny.
Rectal alimentation should be resorted to where the difficulties of deglutition are at all great.
Its principles were republican, but it inaugurated no formal institutions and resorted to no elections, referenda, or plebiscites.
All sorts of temporary expedients have been resorted to to increase the regular supply from Pentelicus.
We are aware that it is resorted to in burns, and highly eulogized in puerperal and yellow fever.
Mr Erman despises the common trick and claptrap resorted to by vulgar writers.
Various other devices were resorted to in the coal-mines before the introduction of a safety lamp.
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