How To Use Fend for In A Sentence
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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
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If you're old enough to date him, then you're old enough to fend for yourself.
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However, they still chirp for their mother to feed them, until they gain enough independence and fend for themselves.
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Stroke victims are worried about what will happen to them if they are turfed out of the specialist ward to fend for themselves.
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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.
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With that said, the man slid away into the night, melting into the shadows, leaving an unsuspecting and unguarded Nicholas to fend for himself.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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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The old couple have no one to do housework; they have to fend for themselves.
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The ducklings are left to fend for themselves until they can fly, at about 60 to 70 days.
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However, the 6'1" Scott Gouthro, who backstopped the Warriors in last Friday's 5-1 loss to the Western Mustangs, was left to virtually fend for himself.
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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.
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How can he possibly fend for himself at all, let alone manage quite literally single-handed for 30 years?
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The fox was released into the wild when it was old enough to fend for itself.
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Parks was ignored and left to fend for herself in poverty for many years.
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In this scenario, the postdoc is left to fend for him - or herself.
Archive 2008-04-01
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Who, as a child, hasn't fantasized about being orphaned and left to fend for herself?
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And on a bitterly cold day she was left to fend for herself with countless businessmen and women walking past.
The Sun
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They were thus left to fend for themselves, aided only by the diplomatic intercession of the Protestant Cantons.
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The old couple have no one to do housework; they have to fend for themselves.
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We got that all-important goal but had to defend for our lives.
The Sun
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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.
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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.
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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.
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He just fills you full of confidence and makes you want to go and defend for each other.
Times, Sunday Times
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Instead, religions have had to fend for themselves in attracting, and retaining, members.
American Grace
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His parents agreed to pay the rent for his apartment but otherwise left him to fend for himself.
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Stroke victims are worried about what will happen to them if they are turfed out of the specialist ward to fend for themselves.
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Japanese civilians, left to fend for themselves in Rangoon, evacuated as best they could and made their way via the Three Pagodas Pass into Kanchanaburi and thence to Bangkok.
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And we were quite disturbed at the end of it, when we found that Rosario had actually put a false name on this note that he shoved in the baby ` s diaper and just left him the way that he did in this parking lot, and as you had mentioned, defenseless, to kind of fend for himself.
CNN Transcript Mar 24, 2008
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I know how to fight and fend for myself, I'm not some little kid.
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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.
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Also, Tree Swallows do not defend foraging areas, so dispersal does not affect access to food.
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She's been forced out of her pride by two domineering young males and is struggling to fend for herself and her young cubs.
The Sun
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When the rehab centre is closed down, he is left to fend for himself.
Times, Sunday Times
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There are many opportunities available for those who are willing to work hard and fend for themselves.
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His mother had to struggle hard to fend for herself and her son.
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She is left to fend for her siblings, including one babe in arms, on a long trek across country.
Times, Sunday Times
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We were brought up to fend for ourselves when we were still quite young.
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The kids had to fend for themselves while their parents were away.
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Young Basque men emigrated because no patrimony could by custom be divided, leaving younger sons to fend for themselves.
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Instead, the soaked, homeless and hungry victims are all but left to fend for themselves.
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His parents agreed to pay the rent for his apartment but otherwise left him to fend for himself.
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Forest began to lose momentum in the second half and found themselves forced to defend for longer periods.
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The kids had to fend for themselves while their parents were away.
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The children were left to fend for themselves.
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However, they are all talented enough to fend for themselves.
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Their journey coincides with that of an Aborigine boy on his walkabout - a 10-day ritual where boys are left to fend for themselves, an event that initiates their entrance into adulthood.
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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.
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Now that the children are old enough to fend for themselves, we can go away on holiday by ourselves.
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Their children migrated to the cities and the parents had to fend for themselves.
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Many were cut loose and left to fend for themselves in the job-poor wilderness.
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Their policy is to align themselves with powerful moneyed forces to tilt the playing field in their favor and let everybody else fend for themselves.
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Their journey coincides with that of an Aborigine boy on his walkabout - a 10-day ritual where boys are left to fend for themselves, an event that initiates their entrance into adulthood.
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There is another group who think that the best solution is to do away with all these pensions and let those people fend for themselves.
The Good Fight
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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.
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The fox was released into the wild when it was old enough to fend for itself.
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She is left to fend for her siblings, including one babe in arms, on a long trek across country.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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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.
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If things do go wrong, many of us lack the wherewithal to fend for our family.
Times, Sunday Times
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All my chum wants is simple life insurance to cover him and his wife until he retires at age 65, or until his daughter is old enough to fend for herself financially.
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At Mokpo, a Yellow Sea Port on the southwestern coast of Korea, London, along with the other steamer passengers, were herded ashore to fend for themselves while the Japanese War Office once again requisitioned their ship.
JACK LONDON'S WAR
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'She'll no' fend for ye the way I can, 'returned Meg,' for I can bake an 'mak ye sowans, scones, brose, kail o' all kinds, an 'parritch.'
Border Ghost Stories
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In places where there is no water for farming, men migrate to urban areas in search of work leaving women behind to fend for the old, and the infirm and the children.
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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.
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So Snow White must fend for herself when she is abandoned by the hunter in the forest.
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The kids had to fend for themselves while their parents were away.
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When the rehab centre is closed down, he is left to fend for himself.
Times, Sunday Times
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This traditional view, known as theism, is quite hard to defend for anyone who has scientific or philosophical training.
Mindful things « Anglican Samizdat
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His parents agreed to pay the rent for his apartment but otherwise left him to fend for himself.
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When an agent is caught behind enemy lines, they must fend for themselves.
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The youngsters had to fend for themselves after their parents died
