Sentence examples for is defied from inspiring English sources
verb
To renounce or dissolve all bonds of affiance, faith, or obligation with; to reject, refuse, or renounce.
Here is where reality and illusion converge, and Nature is defied.
With the Obama family in the White House, what once seemed the impossibility of a black president is defied visually every day.
Theme parks are totally artificial; surreal and puzzling places where gravity is defied and time stands still, where unnatural landscapes sprout bizarre buildings.
But the show's theme of continuity across mediums is defied, brilliantly, by two late-1950s works in brass; their spiky points show Arp's friendly blobs evolving into something more specific to the material at hand.
But the threat of a winding-up order is defied, a buyer found by administrators, and the team reach the Third Division play-offs 2001-02 New owner Adam Pearson invests, 13 players arriving in the close season.
The focus is a set of colored-paper collages and a matching series of painted-wood reliefs, the bookends to a 1966 album of woodcuts titled "Le Soleil Recerclé." The show's theme of continuity across mediums is defied, brilliantly, by two late-1950s works in brass; their spiky points show Arp's friendly blobs evolving into something more specific to the material at hand.
FRANÇOIS-HENRI PINAULT is defying predictions.
At age 37, Bonds is defying time.
He is defying age for the sake of bearing witness.
He was defying the sway of the contest the way that Portsmouth is defying the gravity of its situation.
