Resorted

Sven was so verbose that his friends resorted to calling him a chatterbox.

In order to keep his original idea from being copied, Henry resorted to reticence.

To win his audience, the speaker resorted to using rhetorical techniques he learned from his communication courses.

At last, the students resorted to violence.

The young man must have felt very desperate when he resorted to such a terrible act.

The knife was so blunt that I could not cut the meat with it and I resorted to my pocket knife.

That knife wasn't sharp and I couldn't cut the meat with it, so I resorted to using my pocket knife.

He resorted to his pint of wine for consolation, drank it all in a few minutes, and fell asleep on his arms, with his hair straggling over the table.

She resorted to self-harm in an attempt to convert her emotional pain into physical pain, expecting that the latter would be more tolerable.

Fadil resorted to a desperate measure.