Sentence examples for had defied from inspiring English sources

Had defied the Comm.

Corbyn had defied all expectations.

What if ESPN had defied Indiana?

For 12 years Saddam had defied calls to disarm.

The Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, had defied expectations.

Her leukemia had defied bone marrow transplant and experimental drugs.

Until now, he had defied expectations at every turn.

For weeks, England's obdurate, unfashionable old troupers had defied logic.

Up until recently, the news programs had defied gravity in holding up so well.

On Wall Street, there were many competing theories about why the Fed had defied expectations.

Streptomycin, cleared up infections, including TB, that had defied even the first wonder drug, penicillin.