parrying

Example Sentences

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Unlike commercial antibiotics, phages evolve alongside their bacterial hosts, dodging and parrying the bacterial response so that for every pathogen, there’s likely a bacteriophage, somewhere, that eats it.

From Salon • Nov. 20, 2024

She was witty and had razor-sharp quips, parrying every attempt at deeper connection with playful defiance.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 2, 2024

He worked side by side with graduate students in a windowless office and lab, shunning computers and calculators and parrying the theoretical abstractions that often dominate the world of physics.

From New York Times • Sep. 30, 2022

Norway committed bodies forward in the latter stages and registered their first shot on target in the final minute of normal time, Manuela Zinsberger parrying Ildhusoy's shot onto the crossbar.

From BBC • Jul. 15, 2022

He’s trying to taunt, trick me with his relaxed, almost sloppy parrying.

From "Black Brother, Black Brother" by Jewell Parker Rhodes