Sentence examples for they were defiant from inspiring English sources
Rather, they were defiant combatants.
"They were defiant about what happened.
They were defiant to the end, and strangely tender in their small proprieties.
They were defiant about any pressure from the Bush administration to choose a new leader.
Once all the awkward introductions and internal dysfunction were peeled away last season, the Knicks discovered they were defiant, intense and an act hotter on the road than a rock-'n'-roll band.
Other diplomats said that while many countries would have been willing to reduce American payments even further as a way to weaken the fiscal influence of the United States, they were defiant about making any adjustments under an ultimatum from Congress.
And from time to time people may act as if they're defiant.
They are defiant, thriving and alive "amid eternal snow, beside a cold, dead glacier".
Misrach's photographs are neither train wrecks nor vacation photos; they are defiant amalgamations of the two.
If you sense someone is a threat you have the right to have them removed from the building -- not the room, the building -- by the bouncer or owner, and if they are defiant you have the right to call the police.
All were defiant as they played to the cameras, waving to the crowd like World Cup winners, on the granite and marble steps of Mr Franco's gubernatorial palace.
