uciekł się in English:

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

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

At last, the students resorted to violence.

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.

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