Sentence examples for being defined by a from inspiring English sources

She describes her butchness as being defined by a masculine aesthetic, and an attraction to lesbians who identify as femmes.

Iraq's Sunni Arabs cannot accept their country being defined by a rival branch of Islam and ruled by parties they see as aligned with Iran.

Present Occupy protests are now being defined by a bewildering set of law enforcement strategies – and current practices display a worrying new trend.

But with each successive defeat, they are moving closer to being defined by a slump that has now encompassed one-fourth of the season's schedule.

The man spends 600 million seconds kicking brilliantly in the N.F.L. and winds up being defined by a couple seconds of catastrophe.

In response, Foreign Service officers said they were being defined by a handful of people who spoke up at the town hall meeting and unfairly criticized as whiners.

In software engineering, a well-defined shared vernacular is defined by a "standard".

That few people are defined by a single culture.

Lillian is defined by a single quality: her irreducible will.

Our time is defined by a catastrophe to come".

Nor is it a problem that should be defined by a war ten years ago.