Sentence examples for a defiant gesture from inspiring English sources
When Jeffries entered the ring, he refused to shake Johnson's hand in a defiant gesture.
The deal would be a defiant gesture that the age of the sprawling financial conglomerate is not over.
The choice of Susan E. Rice to replace Tom Donilon as national security adviser represented a defiant gesture to Republicans.
It was a defiant gesture, like that of the nomad who had watched from outside his tent as the train went past.
Andrew Litten's amusing small oil, "Flasher," in which a figure of indefinite sex makes a defiant gesture of self-exposure, straddles a middle ground between description and abstraction.
Every strike used to be a defiant gesture, and defiance is a major part of Suárez's schtick and street-fighting appeal.
My hunch is the latter – that it feels, from the inside, like a nobly defiant gesture of his loyalty to a group of people he loves.
Her set was cut short by thunder and lightning, which she attributed to God and answered with a last defiant gesture: rapping "Born Free," which vows to speak her mind, a cappella as her backup group shut down.
In March of 1821, a war of Greek Independence began with a simple but defiant gesture of the raising of a revolutionary flag over the Monastery of Agia Lavra near Patras in the Peloponnese, my mother's birthplace.
Separated from Harvey, she sold her wedding dress on eBay: it was supposed to be a spirit-lifting defiant gesture, but the winning bid turned out to be a hoaxer.
And with this one defiant gesture in an oddly empty restaurant, Jean is permanently linking her future to that of the cellphone's owner, Gordon, still sitting motionless at his table.
