Sentence examples for defied than from inspiring English sources
The civilizing regularity of bar lines is less defied than overlooked.
In Berlin, the laws against Isherwood and company's sexual predilections were much easier to defy than in England, and one could purchase the favors of Puppenjungen — "doll boys".
Flexible filamentous viruses have defied more than two decades of effort in fiber diffraction, and no high-resolution structure is available for any member of the Alphaflexiviridae family.
It has defied no less than Barack Obama.
Last Wednesday, for instance, LinkedIn, a social network for professionals defied expectations, more than doubling on its first day of trading.
Still, the storied investment bank has defied expectations more than once, as in 1998, when it seemed to teeter after a worldwide currency crisis, only to rebound strongly.
Still, the company has defied expectations more than once, as in 1998, when it seemed to teeter after a worldwide currency crisis, only to rebound strongly.
The onlookers were defying more than the inclement weather.
A place such as this defies more than borders.
Defying more than 125 years of precedent is not an easy thing to explain.
The gifted company members seem to spend more time defying grafity than walking around onstage.
