Sentence examples for defied and from inspiring English sources

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Conventions were defied and major novelties ­devised.

Though never mastered, they can be contended with, defied, and, at least in spirit, transcended.

In her own battles, she at once defied and emulated him.

Dick Holt, one of the officers, successfully defied and ridiculed him on a number of occasions.

This year, however, Donald Trump has defied and, indeed, rewritten the rules.

After campaigns that defied and ridiculed the law Jack Straw announced it would be repealed.

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That sense of style defies and overcomes any dichotomy between reality and artifice.

Defying and converting skeptics with innovation has become standard operating practice for Netflix.

A sister, Ronnie, and a brother, Abbie, variously defy and collaborate with the new insectoid overlords.

Doomsday predictions are, of course, easy to defy, and hard to prepare for in any case.

The group took up where it had left off, urging schoolgirls to defy and sue.

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