How to use "against" in a sentence

In seconds, the water can throw you against the canyon walls and kill you

I try to push against the boulder with both hands

It hits my left hand hard against the canyon wall

The boulder then hits my right arm and traps my hand against the right side of the canyon.

This time I push against the boulder with my knees at the same time.

It feels warm against my skin

As soon as I put the knife against the skin of my arm, I feel ill

I lay my head against the boulder

Then I feel the cold and the pain of the rope against my legs

I hit the rock hard against the boulder

I pick up the black rock and hit it as hard as I can against the boulder

I throw myself against the boulder

'She left school and went off with a group of people who were against the war,' he said.

He was against the war, like me, but he blew up buildings and things

I went to live with Moses, one of the other men in the group, and soon after that Jenny went to Washington to talk and work against the war

So I walked back to the hotel, and there was the little old man, still playing against himself

It follows from these views that no State upon its own mere motion can lawfully get out of the Union; that Resolves and Ordinances to that effect are legally void; and that acts of violence, within any State or States, against the authority of the United States, are insurrectionary or revolutionary, according to circumstances.

The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts; but beyond what may be necessary for these objects, there will be no invasion, no using of force against or among the people anywhere

His aid against the other.

And finally, in our progress towards a resumption of work, we require two safeguards against a return of the evils of the old order

I shall ask the Congress for the one remaining instrument to meet the crisis - broad Executive power to wage a war against the emergency, as great as the power that would be given to me if we were in fact invaded by a foreign foe.

Now the trumpet summons us again - not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need - not as a call to battle, though embattled we are - but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, "rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation" - a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease, and war itself.

Can we forge against these enemies a grand and global alliance, North and South, East and West, that can assure a more fruitful life for all mankind? Will you join in that historic effort?

Three or four minutes later Albert came into the yard again and heard a sound like a bump against the wooden fence that separated the yards of numbers 27 and 29

He thought it was somebody falling against the fence, but he did not look to see what it was

One, Albert Cadosch, heard a voice in the yard and a sound like that of somebody falling against the fence between 5.20 to 5.30 a.m

He knew that Lipski was the name of a Jewish murderer, and in 1888 it was an insulting word used against Jews

It was only 4-5 metres square and the door banged against the bedside table

There were lots of suspects at the time, but the police did not have any real evidence against them

The anger of the crowd also turned against Jews, who were threatened and abused

Instead, with a small sigh, she fell back against her pillow and lay completely still.

Bending down, he closed her eyes and pressed his lips against her forehead

Leaning against a tree, she cried aloud:

Finally, Jondrette picked up a large picture that was leaning against the wall, and showed it to M

Not wishing to give evidence against Thenardier in court, Marius made immediate arrangements to leave his room

Cosette, feeling her body close to his, took his hand and pressed it against her heart

'Who said you had to go away? You left me - your grandfather! - to join in those street protests against the government, I suppose

Unable to control himself, he beat his fists against the walls of the house.

The day of his funeral was arranged for 5 June, and thousands of people saw this as a chance to make a public protest against the king and his government.

The next cannonball exploded against the wall at one end of the barricade, killing two men and wounding three.

He was being followed! He pressed himself against the wall, held his breath and waited

Leaning against the door for support, he murmured, 'Marius!'

But after a few minutes he realises how tired he is, and he thinks that maybe he can close his eyes for a moment and even rest his head against the grille.

Something moving against the door of the confessional

And somewhere in the dark Mr Fletcher stops hammering his foot against the new wall

So he continues to hammer his foot against the wall.

"I thought so." He played with her fingers, matching them against his

Sala looked out at the view: nothing but black and silver tower blocks against the cold gray sky

White seabirds flew close to the surface of the water, fighting against the wind

There's a group working against the government - a rebellion

The old sofa had been pushed against one wall, but there was no metal table or chairs

You know - against people who wanted to change the way you thought."

I was leaning against Rebecca's cushion

I was sitting on a rug, leaning against Maxim's chair

I took his hand and held it against my face.

I held his hands against my heart

I sat at Maxim's feet, my head against his knees

Lightning flashed against the grey sky

I tried to stand up but my legs were so weak that I had to lean against a chair

Ben shook his head and moved back against the wall

She closed her eyes and imagined herself lying beside him, reaching for him in the dark, touching, touching, moving against him, into the shelter of his arms

She quickly slid the door shut and put her back against it.

Danny had left it at the far end of the room, beyond the bed, against the wall, and that was where it had stood the last time that Tina had been here

But now it lay at an angle, the base against the wall, the easel itself slanted, chalkboard-down, across a game table

Overhead, palm fronds scraped softly against one another.

No one was near them, yet suddenly two photos began to rattle violently against the wall, and then both flew off their mountings and clattered to the floor behind the beige, brushed-corduroy sofa.

She put her shoulder against it, pushed gently, then harder, and finally the door swung inward.

Less than ten minutes later, when the curtains opened again, the mirrors had been taken away, and the stage had been transformed into an ice rink; the second production number was done on skates against a winter backdrop so real that it made Elliot shiver.

When she shut off the radio the third time, she kept her finger pressed against the ON-OFF bar

The display case that held nine model airplanes rocked, banging repeatedly against the wall

She had never vented any of her black anger because, initially, she'd wanted to hide it from Danny; she hadn't wanted to turn him against his father

She hurried around the desk, banging her hip against one corner, heading for the wall socket as the printer hummed with the production of more hateful words.

As he drew near, he opened his arms, as if it was the most natural thing in the world for him to hold and comfort her, as if he had held her many times before, and she leaned against him in the same spirit of familiarity

But when he returned, she kissed him tentatively, found that nothing had changed, and pressed against him once more.

Elliot backed up against the sink.

But we don't have anything against you

Vince bent forward, gagging, and Elliot slammed the butt of the gun against the side of his head, with a sound like stone meeting stone.

He put a hand against her back, gently but firmly urging her out of the foyer.

No matter who was searching for them, no matter how large the organization pitted against them, this city was too big to harbor danger for them in every nook and crevice

"Just two ordinary people against them?"

"'Laughter is a balm for the afflicted, the best defense against despair, the only medicine for melancholy.'"

The rising night wind thrummed against the large pane of glass beside their booth

I never talked against Michael

The Network badly wanted to eliminate everyone who might press for the exhumation of Danny Evans's body, and the agents targeted against Elliot Stryker and Christina Evans had thus far failed to carry out their orders to terminate the pair

The famous Pennsylvania Alexander's had always been prominently associated with the struggle for minority civil rights, the Equal Rights Amendment, the crusade against capital punishment, and social idealisms of every variety

Elliot put his right hand against the dashboard vent

When they were nearly halfway across the graveyard, when Elliot was positive they weren't being pursued, he stopped, leaned against a tall monument, and tried not to take such huge, deep gulps of the painfully cold air

She was peripherally aware of a soft, fire like glow from beyond the cleft, and of a mysterious figure silhouetted against that reddish backdrop

I'll hold the pen against the map, and maybe Danny can draw the route for us."

"We're up against some damn dangerous people

We're still up against this bunch of cutthroats

"Can a couple of people like us really have a chance of winning when we're up against something as big as the government itself?"

A brisk wind spilled over the jagged horizon under a low and menacing sky, snapping ice-hard flurries of snow against the windshield of the Explorer.

This wasn't insurance against the unforeseen; this was simply prudent planning for the trouble they could foresee all too well.

Perhaps the lateness of the hour and the fading light would work against them, but approaching in the night might actually be to their advantage

Carlton Dombey, who had come on duty twenty minutes ago, sat at one of the tables against the north wall

Beside the monitor was a lighted glass plate against which the visitor was supposed to place his right hand, palm-down, within the existing outline of a hand

The gun struck him alongside the head, and he stumbled backward against the steel door.

"When we were running operations against the drug lords down in Colombia," Morgan said, "they called me 'Bats,' meaning I had bats in the belfry." He laughed.

Tina cringed back against the corridor wall.

Tamaguchi drove us very hard until we isolated the antibody and figured out why it was so effective against the disease

Shaking violently, snuffling, he put his face against her neck, and she felt his scalding tears on her skin

Putting one hand on the boy's back to press him against her, she discovered how shockingly spindly he was each rib and vertebra so prominent that she seemed to be holding a skeleton

If they felt they had some terrific new bug that we didn't know about, something against which we couldn't retaliate in kind, they'd use it on us."

They were never able to find an antibody or an antibiotic that was effective against it

A year later, Tina has reason to believe the accident did not occur as reported - that her son is alive, is being held against his will, and is in desperate need of her

He promptly brought legal action against the studio, forcing us into arbitration

I would not be surprised to learn that one of the network-approved writers is in prison for crimes of a particularly perverse nature committed against small woodland animals - and I know that at least a couple of them are no longer in the business

He didn't like the black Americans, so during the Civil War he fought against the men from the North, and with those from the South

This time we went towards the vicarage and finally to where the bushes grew against the wall.

A picture was leaning against the wall with its back towards us

Dr Haydock warned me against that.' Then he looked over at the window

But across the great emptiness of space, more intelligent minds than ours looked at this Earth with jealous eyes, and slowly and surely made their plans against us

Someone pushed against me, and I almost fell down on top of the screw

I pressed back against the person behind me, and turned my head towards the Thing again

It was the head of the shop assistant who had fallen in, looking black against the hot western sky

The tops of the trees and the roofs of Horsell were sharp and black against the western sky

An hour or two later a field-gun arrived for use against the first cylinder.

I heard a church strike midnight, and then I saw Maybury Hill, with its tree-tops and roofs black and sharp against the red sky.

He saw this one go after a man, catch him in one of its steel arms and knock his head against a tree

Machine guns are completely useless against them, and field-guns have been put out of action

The sun was just setting and the Houses of Parliament stood against a peaceful sky

They could move quickly and strike with such power that even the biggest guns could not stand against them

No doubt the Martians were very frightening, but there could not be more than twenty of them against our millions.

At the same time four of the fighting-machines, also carrying tubes, crossed the river, and two of them, black against the western sky, came into sight of myself and the curate as we hurried along the road to the north.

They never gave the guns any chance against them

After that no group of men would stand against them, because this would mean almost certain death.

Many became stuck together under Tower Bridge, and the sailors had to fight against people who tried to get on from the riverside

The cylinder was already open in the centre of the pit, and on the furthest side one of the great fighting-machines, empty now, stood tall and unmoving against the evening sky

Then something - something struggling violently - was lifted high against the sky and brought down again

I sat staring in front of me, trying without success to find a way of arguing against him

There, on the top, high against the early morning stars, was a third Martian, standing still like the others.

Great piles of earth had formed around a pit at the top of the hill - the final and largest one the Martians had made - and from behind these piles thin smoke rose against the sky

And all around it, some in their overturned war-machines and some in building-machines, and ten of them lying in a row, were the Martians - dead! They had been killed by germs against which their systems could not fight; killed, after all man's machines had failed, by the smallest things that God has put on this Earth.

These germs of disease have killed people and animals since the beginning of time, but over these many years we have developed the ability to fight against them

They stood now, harmless tripods of shining metal, against the brightness of the rising sun.

This is the story of a crime committed against a woman

'Sir Percival Glyde was involved in your daughter's death and has committed a crime against someone I love

As I ran back towards the church, I saw flames against the evening sky

'I want a full confession, written and signed, of your conspiracy with Sir Percival Glyde against Laura Fairlie,' I said, 'and I want proof of your story so that everyone knows the truth at last.'

After leaving school, Rigoberta worked against human rights crimes by Guatemalan soldiers from 1960 to 1996, during a war in the country

She said, "The men who are against us have to choose between giving us freedom, or giving us death."

Winston Churchill - who later became prime minister - started his career against the vote for women, but later he agreed with it

Feminists have also worked hard to stop sexual assault and other crimes against women at work and at home.

The fourth wave started around 2012, and it is about sexual harassment and crimes against women at work

Second-wave feminism also talked about sexual assault against women

The third and fourth waves of feminism, from the 1990s until today, have often been about women's fight against sexual harassment and assault, and the fight to be "themselves"

This time it was against a man - his name was Bobby Riggs.

Even he - a fifty-five-year-old man - could win against the best female players

MeToo is a movement against sexual harassment and assault.