Examples of 'had to resort' in a sentence

Meaning of "had to resort"

The phrase 'had to resort' implies that someone had to use a particular action or solution as a last or final option, often due to the lack of alternative or more favorable choices. It suggests that the action taken was not the preferred or ideal method, but was necessary under the circumstances

How to use "had to resort" in a sentence

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had to resort
I had to resort to threats to get my money back.
Shep was who you had to resort to to reenter.
I had to resort to gas station energy drinks.
I would not have had to resort to this.
They had to resort to cannibalism in the mountains.
He has no idea why he had to resort to brute force.
I had to resort to a hose clamp on the handle.
Which is why i had to resort to saying that.
I had to resort to measures contrary to my character.
Occasionally they had to resort to direct instruction.
I had to resort to terminal commands for manual installation.
Which is why we had to resort to this measure.
I had to resort to buying him online.
I would not have had to resort to other sources.
I had to resort to shooting my shoes on my bed.

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The municipal government had to resort to desperate measures.
They had to resort to cannibalism in order to stay alive.
I never in my career had to resort to that.
I never had to resort to living below ground.
Many heavily indebted countries had had to resort to commercial borrowing.
I have had to resort to these legal grounds.
He became too weak to use crutches and had to resort to a wheelchair.
I have had to resort to selling things online.
She lost her anchor and had to resort to a makeshift.
You had to resort to dirty tricks.
For the last one we had to resort to the net.
He had to resort to sleeping on the beach.
The native peoples had to resort to eating cactus.
I had to resort to a walk for a bit.
It is baffling to me that you had to resort to blogs to collect information.
They had to resort to cannibalism in order to stay allve.
Just on a few occasions i had to resort to pizza and pasta.
Simeon had to resort to war to achieve his goals.
Lacking all medical equipment we had to resort to truly desperate measures.
They had to resort to all sorts of extreme measures.
In many instances the students had to resort to fairly regular body snatching.
They had to resort to sharecropping and tenant farming to survive.
People have told me they have had to resort to this in similar circumstances.
We had to resort to low violence.
Many businesses cut back on production and had to resort to temporary or permanent layoffs.
People had to resort to manual labor again.
Clear categories of situations where roadblocks were repeatedly had to resort to were found.
I have even had to resort to the handbook.
This is not the first time that Ecuadorians have had to resort to such actions.
Eventually we had to resort to the sword again.
Had to resort to making a claim through PayPal to get my money back.
And we often had to resort to workarounds.
Had to resort to an m.
Have you ever had to resort to unusual ways.
Even your phone is switched off so I had to resort to this.

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