Sentence examples similar to semblance of defense from inspiring English sources

After 30 Bg7, Shahade lacked any semblance of a defense.

Since we all know it take some semblance of great defense to win championships.

For months, the 2008-9 Knicks played spirited, competitive basketball, though typically lacking in any semblance of lockdown defense.

Eventually Swindon also abandoned any semblance of defensive order.

Is any semblance of denial plausible?

The most troubling point was the lack of any semblance of a run defense –- the Aztecs allowed 241.5 yards per game on the ground –- which kept San Diego State from coming back from any deficit.

The path to even a semblance of collective European defense is littered with unmet promises of better cooperation — for example, the quarter-century-old Franco-German brigade, which remains mostly a paper tiger, and the scramble ahead of the Warsaw meeting to find a fourth country to command a unit in the new NATO deployment in Eastern Europe.

At least this defense has a semblance of a foundation in place for this season.

Sabella has quietly restructured the side, built it, of course, around Lionel Messi, but he also has given it some semblance of reliability and transition between attack and defense.

Position battle to watch: No matter how strong the Stanford defense may be, the team will struggle again unless it can find some semblance of consistency at the quarterback position.

Over time, a semblance of normalcy returned.