Sentence examples for being defending from inspiring English sources

He added: "I felt like being defending champ, it was an obligation that I should be here.

Speaking afterwards, Williams, who is looking to emulate her sister Venus in retaining her Wimbledon title, claimed the pressure of being defending champion at Wimbledon had not affected her so far.

"There is that pressure and expectation that comes with being defending champions, because we're essentially the team to beat now, we're up there to be shot at," he said.

Any pressure of being defending champion or worrying about whether we were ever going to lose a game got knocked out of us in the first game this year".

Shrubsole, 21, told BBC Sport: "Being defending champions is a pressure we thrive on.

"We're looking to do that in Twenty20 - and being defending [world] champions, we have to go out and play like that".

Defender must be defending something.

He was defending Poland".

"After that you're defending.

So we're defending ourselves".

"We're defending our country".