Sentence examples for defy replication from inspiring English sources

The giants of postmodernism -- William Gaddis, Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo -- have erected pyramids of prose so intricate in their conceits and so saturated with references as to defy replication altogether.

Roger Bohmrich, a wine expert, says the fact that the personality and quality of the wines emerging from these vineyards have defied replication for so many centuries is a powerful indication that the site is critical.

Was this stuff the real deal, or perhaps it was the kind of flimsy stuff that defies replication and is soon forgotten?

We defy augury.

Both works defy norms.

We defy obscurity.

"I defy anyone".

The numbers defy reason.

Can they defy history?

They also defy reason.

But they cannot defy gravity.