Sentence examples for defences down from inspiring English sources

I could make people laugh, enough to get their defences down, and then brainwash them.

Little by little, we got to know each other, we let our defences down and we could rebuild a space where we could coexist and where I was well received and didn't feel uncomfortable.

This is Stoppard writing with his defences down; yet the play also wittily explores subjects including the power of language, the provenance of protest and the capacity of pop music to rival the classics in generating pleasure.

Oak Hill, therefore, if this is true, will have its defences down again, and should be there for the taking, if anyone's in the mood to drive straight, pitch the ball close, and put on a performance like renowned magic act The Somnambulist & Simpson did yesterday.

Despite their best efforts, however, they were unsuccessful, although the constant artillery and assaults continued to wear the British defences down further.

Fraser McAlpine of BBC Music said that the song views "the perspective of someone who's a bit too tightly buttoned-up to let her defences down".

We struggled to break Saracens' defence down, but we kept on playing.

Some Norwich supporters howled like wolves in the stands during that match but the striker has not looked like blowing a single defence down since.

The forwards rumbled through the phases to wear the Japan defence down and Seymour collected Ruaridh Jackson's pass to burst through and give the hosts a little breathing space, even though Laidlaw missed the conversion.

If so, in Company, Stephen Sondheim's musical from 1970, Robert's defences are down.

Defences are down and it is vulnerable; cracks can easily be exploited.