Sentence examples for defying us from inspiring English sources

Iran and North Korea are defying us.

I think Monika is defying us to judge her.

Look at them, the elite-until-March program reviled in recent years for their NCAA tournament shortcomings, defying us again.

Crunchy tempura prawns, long as pencils, came straight from the fryer, defying us to burn our tongues.

Needless to say, McGregor takes emergency precautions, appearing throughout in a mustache the size of a yew hedge, and thus defying us to work out whether his face is straight or not.

In Pyke's portrait, Ayer's face is fixed forever in its calm inscrutability, defying us – and Pyke – to read it, sending the curious viewer elsewhere in search of meaning: towards his work, towards his words.

"If they defy us now, we will defeat them".

"Something that defied us for 50 years suddenly became trivial.

And it's a hope that helps us survive, even when those great odds defy us.

If that does not work, we cannot allow the regime to defy us".

News defies us to peer through the gloom and ever see light ahead.