Sentences with 'withstood'
Example sentences and phrases with the word withstood and other words derived from it.
• « Judah was overrun by the Assyrians, but Jerusalem withstood a long enough siege to convince the Assyrians to accept bribes to leave, and instead became a satellite kingdom dominated by the Assyrians but still ruled by a Hebrew king. »
• « Also, despite having conquered large amounts of Byzantine territory, Constantinople itself withstood a massive siege in 718 and Byzantine forces pushed back Arab forces in Anatolia. »
• « A second die-off was unleashed, so barbaric and annihilating that only a few species withstood it: it was the world's second great ecological crisis, and the first caused by pollution, the previous one having been the consequence of overexploitation of natural resources. »