Sentence examples for much defied from inspiring English sources

"I used to think I was creative, but what he did pretty much defied description.

The exhibition demonstrates how sculpture changed back then from something static, three-dimensional and made mostly out of traditional materials like stone or wood or clay into a medium that pretty much defied definition.

Grug pretty much defies belief.

Ms. Smith wears so many hats — and jackets and shoes and shirts — that she pretty much defies definition.

The plotting of "Poetic License" is completely plausible, but squeezing all the revelations and accusations into one evening pretty much defies credibility.

Lidstrom seemed like the same player at 42 that he was at 25, not so much defying age as ignoring it.

Parker pretty much defies category altogether in this deeply felt and intimately told memory tale, which takes place during the historic baseball season of 1947, when Jackie Robinson broke the color bar in major-league baseball by playing first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers.

iheartfalafel.com Pretty much defying categories, this ultra-cute trailer's owner, Jessie, says the style of cooking is "completely our own", mixing it up with a dizzying range of eclectic components: kaffir lime leaves in coconut milk to rosemary beets and beer-braised ribs.

SS: Yeah, which pretty much defies the purpose of the burqa, some might say.

In the meantime, the U.S. government will just keep borrowing money hand over fist at super low rates, thanks very much, defying the warnings repeated year after year that inflation and interest rates are going to explode any minute now.

The public discourse on the jubilee did not so much defy analysis as run screaming from it, presumably to hang itself on a string of bunting.