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How to use unresisting in a sentence

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After the disastrous Battle of Long Island on 27 August 1776, British forces seized unresisting New York and held it throughout the war.
He also took the folder from the other unresisting hand, keeping it under his arm.
In 1964, two killers enter a school for the blind and gun down an unresisting mechanics instructor, Johnny North.
He took the other sledge from Damien's unresisting fingers and we raced to the bottom.
Apache helicopters pounded them with missiles, while US tanks poured cannon fire on the defeated and unresisting column.
Starting to walk away from the house, I am grateful she threw me out, grabbing me by the waist and pushing my unresisting body out the door.
The representation of Silver as quiet and unresisting, however, suggests McCrumb's ambivalent attitude towards political resistance against an oppressive state.
The rabbit was squatting by the cabbages unresisting when I was summoned to fetch him, and soon after I carried him back in the hutch he shut his eyes and died.
The lithographer must act imaginatively as he works on the stone, and make the transformation himself, on an unresisting surface.
Each of these aspects brings out contrary kinds of matter, with contrary tactile sensations: unresisting, hard, squeezy.
Joyous fans galloped in the ungainly manner of fanatics across the field and seized an unresisting Iraqi player, kissing him on the cheek.
She nodded and let him have another swallow of whiskey before she took it from his unresisting fingers and shoved the stopper back into the bottle.
Somebody sneaks in and chloroforms you, or sprays knock-out gas under your door, and while you are comatose and unresisting, your worldly goods are stripped.
These touches were sometimes humorous and sometimes disturbing, as when a white male dancer laid unresisting black male dancers on the floor, arranging their arms behind them as if cuffed.
Why not swagger, after the way he'd humiliated my unresisting father?
He slipped it softly onto her unresisting finger and, like the unwise moncalf he was, kissed it.
Examples from Classical Literature
Back pressure upon the matrix from a short shoe upon a thick unresisting nail, is frequently the cause of onychia.
I certainly was bound by no law to allow a ruffian to cut me down, unresisting.
In the whole of this transaction the Moravians were passive and unresisting.
And he took in his own a hand that Ruth, amazed and unresisting, yielded up to him.
He took her unresisting hand, drew it within his arm, and led her down the stairs.
He led her, unresisting, around to the couch at the other side of the table.
Smith said a dirty word and pushed himself away from the screamer unit to glower at an unresisting wall.
The poor woman screamed with apprehension, and all rose, as by a general impulse, while they dragged him unresisting from the place.
Summerlee had been so interested that he had stood unresisting while Challenger tilted his head into the air.
She took the book from George's unresisting hand and rewarded him with a smile.
She snatched from Lingard's unresisting palm the sheet of paper.
She held out her hand, and took in hers his own unresisting fingers.
Yates hastened to meet her, clasping one of her unresisting hands in his.
As the passage leading beyond it was dark at the further end I took Senor Ortega by the hand and led him along, unresisting, like a child.
Yvonne unresisting, insentient, went whither she was bidden to go.
With which he took the fork from my unresisting hand, and bent over the gridiron, as if his whole attention were concentrated on it.
The sound of the trumpet wakes Judah no longer, and her despised children are now but the unresisting victims of hostile and military oppression.
He held her unresisting hand, but her face was hidden from him.
He drew her toward him, unresisting, their gaze still on each other.
Snagsby replies by delivering herself a prey to spasms, not an unresisting prey, but a crying and a tearing one, so that Cook's Court re-echoes with her shrieks.
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