Sentence examples for defy me from inspiring English sources
But for me, there is another uncomfortable truth: my own pro-abortion-rights politics defy me.
Buses will be late, four-year-olds will insist on wearing odd shoes to school, gadgets will defy me.
I defy the elements, and they defy me, and when we're done, I crawl inside a sleeping bag to get the heat back in my body.
These sleek versions of rags defy me when I try to help out, crinkling and crumpling and smelling mildly like hospital rooms used to.
From my earliest days as the New York Times bureau chief in Tokyo, I struggled with a veteran Japanese office manager in late middle age, who had almost immediately begun to defy me at every turn.
"If you defy me, you will have this printed all over you," she said, holding the belt high over her head for everyone to see.
I tried to think this, but the parcel defied me.
The old man was facing me, as though defying me to deny the story.
Is pulling them close when they are fiercely defying me, distress be damned, a missed opportunity for discipline?
I had never heard of them before someone threw a bag on my desk and defied me to open one.
