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fend for

VERB
  1. argue or speak in defense of
    She supported the motion to strike

How To Use fend for In A Sentence

  • Let's face it," Warren said, "This is sort of how we went about the rescue -- we rescued at the top and we left the bottom to kind of fend for itself -- and that's showing up in the unemployment numbers. WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
  • If you're old enough to date him, then you're old enough to fend for yourself.
  • However, they still chirp for their mother to feed them, until they gain enough independence and fend for themselves.
  • Stroke victims are worried about what will happen to them if they are turfed out of the specialist ward to fend for themselves.
  • fend for yourself to look after yourself without help from anyone else: His parents agreed to pay the rent for his apartment but otherwise left him to fend for himself.
  • With that said, the man slid away into the night, melting into the shadows, leaving an unsuspecting and unguarded Nicholas to fend for himself.
  • In the wild, if a female with a young one gets killed, other females may take care of the young one till it is old enough to fend for itself.
  • Abandoned by their neglectful mother, four children are left to fend for themselves in this quiet, unsensational but minutely observed drama by Japan's Hirokazu Kore-eda.
  • It's a sore thing to do between such near friends; but if I get the dirdum* of this dreadful accident, I'll have to fend for myself, man. Kidnapped
  • Having another uncommitted heavy corps in CONUS might reassure U.S. allies around the globe that they will not be left to fend for themselves if the second major theater war occurs on their terrain.
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