Sentence examples for they defy from inspiring English sources

Can they defy history?

"They comply or they defy".

"They defy definition".

"They defy the international conventions".

Because stripes unsettle perceptual certainty, they defy absolutism.

"If they defy us now, we will defeat them".

They defy him at their peril, he said.

But they are so arrogant, they defy the whole world.

They defy culinary gravity in their impossibly airy crispness — or maybe it's a shockingly crispy airiness.

"They defy the stereotype of 'prisoner of conscience' of yore, at least in how they look".

They are one of a handful of organisms known as negligibly senescent — they defy aging.