Sentence examples for playing defence from inspiring English sources

Yet RealNetworks is not playing defence.

"Keep playing defence, man," he said.

"Unlike most people in the media, I'm not playing defence tonight.

The large majority of competitive seats are held by Democrats, who are playing defence against an energised opposition.

Most of his work as a senator, he admitted, was "playing defence...rather than moving forward on a progressive agenda".

LAST week, in the second of three debates before the run-off mayoral election on April 7th, Rahm Emanuel, the incumbent, was stuck playing defence.

"At school I played defence," he continued.

He plays defence better than anyone I've ever played.

As an alliance, Nato can only play defence.

But I think that through 96 minutes we played defence well.

She was also a fine sportswoman - like her mother, she played defence for her football team.