Fending In A Sentence

Definition of Fending

• After fending along its massy side for several hundred yards, we got off clear from an angle.
• The old man stooped, and, with Von Salzinger, assisted in fending off the pinnace.
• He had thought he had been fending off the banter of a child, but now, suddenly, this was not a child.
• Deep verandas ran around the bungalows, with bamboo drops which were always down in the daytime, fending off the treacherous sunshine.
• All these improvements the Baptist had wrought single-handed, besides fending and cooking for himself: no Battalion Headquarters for him!