Resistant is an English word with synonyms like immune. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Resistant in a sentence
Resistant meaning
- A person who resists; especially a member of a resistance movement.
- A thing which resists.
Synonyms of Resistant
Using Resistant
- The main meaning on this page is: A person who resists; especially a member of a resistance movement. | A thing which resists.
- Useful related words include: immune, nonabsorbent, repellent, noncompliant.
- In the example corpus, resistant often appears in combinations such as: resistant to, are resistant, more resistant.
Example sentences (20)
This JoyTutus Pickup Truck Tent is made with 150D polyester and is water-resistant and wind-resistant.
Around of Candida auris strains are resistant to at least one antifungal, while 30% are resistant to at least two.
The 3rd generation AirPods are sweat and water resistant with an IPX4 rating, while AirPods 4 are dust, sweat, and water resistant with an IP54 rating.
Moreover, it offers added advantages to the manufacturers, such as a shiny and impervious surface, and the butadiene part, which is a rubbery substance, provides resilience even at low temperatures and is impact-resistant, tough, and heat-resistant.
While the turret is resistant to 14.5mm rounds, the hull is resistant only to 7.62 rounds, leaving the platform decidedly vulnerable to anything other than small arms fire.
An AC4 rating for example means it is 100% scratch resistant, water resistant, and durable enough to use for both residential and commercial buildings.
But he added: “There is a new antibiotic which has just come out that has been approved for drug-resistant TB, so there is hope on the horizon with drug-resistant cases.
This report studies the global Resistant Maltodextrin market status and forecast, categorizes the global Resistant Maltodextrin market size (value and volume) by manufacturers, type, application, and region.
When they are in the pink-bud stage, they can withstand cold weather better than when flowers have emerged; and bloom stage is more resistant than at petal fall, which is more resistant than at nut set.
Along with antibiotic waste, resistant bacteria follow, thus introducing antibiotic-resistant bacteria into the environment.
AmpC AmpC-producing strains are typically resistant to oxyimino-beta lactams and to cephamycins and are susceptible to carbapenems ; however, diminished porin expression can make such a strain carbapenem-resistant as well.
Extensively Drug-Resistant TB (XDR TB) is TB that is also resistant to the second line of drugs.
Multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter have become very resistant to antibiotics.
Number of strands The more individual wire strands in a wire bundle, the more flexible, kink-resistant, break-resistant, and stronger the wire becomes.
Resistant starch main Resistant starch is starch that escapes digestion in the small intestine of healthy individuals.
Some people are resistant to certain strains of HIV. citation For example, people with the CCR5-Δ32 mutation are resistant to infection with R5 virus, as the mutation stops HIV from binding to this coreceptor, reducing its ability to infect target cells.
The introduction of glyphosate-resistant sugar beets may contribute to the growing number of glyphosate-resistant weeds, so Monsanto has developed a program to encourage growers to use different herbicide modes of action to control their weeds.
There is a balance between hardness and toughness in any steel; the harder the steel, the less tough or impact-resistant it is, and the more impact-resistant it is, the less hard it is.
The resulting configuration is rugged, resistant to shock and vibration, resistant to acceleration and ionizing radiation, and has improved aging characteristics.
Typhoid resistant to these agents is known as multidrug-resistant typhoid (MDR typhoid).
Common combinations with resistant
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- resistant to 58×
- are resistant 8×
- more resistant 8×
- water resistant 7×
- is resistant 7×
- resistant and 7×
- resistant than 7×
- be resistant 5×
- was resistant 4×
- and resistant 4×