Standing under the beating sun, he had to fight off a tendency to drowsiness.

She played heavily to women voters by arguing that only a woman could be trusted to fight off limits on the right to abortion.

Seven fingers broken as she tried to fight Bobby off in the doorway to the hall, beyond which lay her sleeping sons.

Mo'atabar and the others were trying to fight their way up a stairwell off to his left.

The stock fought off an early decline to close up 1 3/8, to 103 5/8.

I spent the morning nursing myself with aspirin, tea, and hot baths, fighting off flashbacks to the night before.

I don't want to have to fight off ambushes from here to the next city-state.

Blaise, fighting off the miasma of two blows to the head, tried to make himself think clearly.

They fight off the infection and gain lifetime immunity to the virus.

Huma fought off a desire to hug the strange creature.