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Sentence count:100+2Posted:2017-03-05Updated:2020-07-24
Similar words: baybayonetat bestat bottomsetbackset backcut backfootballMeaning: adj. forced to turn and face attackers. 
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31. He kept his disease at bay, changed his diet and actually got bigger and stronger.
32. Ruthless management may succeed in holding change at bay for a while, but only visionary leadership will succeed over time.
33. Aspirin kept the fever at bay after that, but he slept fitfully all night.
34. Concentrating on Emma would help to keep her worries at bay for a little while.
35. It was the kind of confidence, though,(sentencedict.com/at bay.html) built to keep terror at bay.
36. Stalin reacted with the full fury of a wounded animal at bay.
37. I tried to keep despair at bay, telling myself that some sort of mistake had been made.
38. From the middle years of the fourteenth century, such steps were sufficient to keep all but the most determined attackers at bay.
39. He was gritting his teeth against the pain, keeping it at bay while he studied the stump, the severed hand.
40. Disease caused by fungal attacks is kept at bay with the prompt removal of both infected and damaged material.
41. To help keep these bold bloodsuckers at bay we rubbed wet salt on our boots.
42. While the hostages were being secured, two Chinook helicopters fought to keep the West Side Boys at bay.
43. Two green glazed lions guarded the gates to keep evil spirits at bay.
44. Thomases has denied any role in keeping investigators at bay.
45. The survey of 228 people fishing at Bay Area piers, released Thursday, found that about three-quarters were people of color.
46. It contained enough witty lines to keep the creeping whimsy, indicated in the title, at bay.
47. She holds the adventurers at bay by holding the scroll over a candle flame and threatening to destroy it.
48. Meanwhile, Bates was turning his 270-acre Grange Farm, Bucks, into a fortress to keep newsmen at bay.
49. But I have to keep the reality and the horror at bay.
50. Another technique for keeping performance anxiety at bay is the group sing-along.
51. He felt at bay, like a very dim minister facing a hostile House.
52. There is no truth in the rumour that this tactic is being used to keep the critics at bay.
53. Far from cultivating a golden tan, I had difficulty in keeping the rust at bay during a particularly wet summer.
54. A thin smear of Vaseline on all snap-on terminals, and internal spring and pins will help keep corrosion at bay.
55. What was required to hold him at bay was constant vigilance.
56. He found the bank's routine congenial, keeping greater worries at bay.
57. All in all, the eatery is a breakfast bargain, with enough different components to keep boredom at bay.
58. The findings, published in the journal Science, also suggest that reducing leptin levels below normal might hold puberty at bay.
59. He experienced a sense of fatalism that kept fear at bay.
60. The sheep come straight in from the damp outdoors but infection must be kept at bay.
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