Sentence examples for a note of defiance from inspiring English sources

But he added a note of defiance.

"It'll be there," he replies, with a note of defiance.

But the Iranian side ended the meetings on a note of defiance.

Interviewed at the hospital last week, she sounded a note of defiance.

It is a brief act of physical heroism, with a note of defiance.

Perhaps it's meant to sound a note of defiance to the health police?

More distinctively, it sounded a note of Promethean defiance: Philosophy makes no secret of it.

Striking a note of somber defiance, President Ezer Weizman of Israel tonight refused either to resign or to step down temporarily while the police pursue a criminal investigation of his receipt of hundreds of thousands of dollars from a French businessman and political supporter.

Here England's elite corps of batsmen were presented with a chance to sound a muted note of defiance at the end of a dismal series.

But neither the Tigers nor the Sooners bemoaned the fact that college football was heading to its first split championship since 1997, though they sounded a certain note of defiance.

And it is especially satisfying among Grimbarians, who have much to grumble about, and in whose enduring attachment to the sea, long after the trawlers stopped steaming, is a note of well-judged defiance as well as regret.