defy

How To Use defy In A Sentence

• The Waterford publicans, who have signified their intention to defy the ban, are following in the footsteps of their colleagues in Kerry, Cork, Donegal and Wexford.
• Spinal injuries defy classifications and generalisations. Times, Sunday Times
• Defying all laws of buoyancy, he continued walking into the water until the surface was a good five feet above him.
• Yet, parasites do not by definition defy vaccines. Parasite Rex
• In fact, it is easy to run out of superlatives for a gig as good as this and I defy anyone to emerge disappointed by what they have seen and heard - these guys are in danger of setting themselves some impossibly high standards.
• There should be a return to selective education because not everyone are equal and I defy anyone to teach a class where the abilities range from genius level to non assessable and full fill the needs of each child. Is someone who left University with a Third Class degree the person to go to for Maths advice
• Defy the tempest & the storm deride is not in the original nor is it good. ποθος [19] is hardly fierce desire — & all such expressions of ram-cat raptures are bad. by the by she a dark lanthern might have deprived us of this poem. your storm is very good — zounds I sweat at the bare idea of the Letter 138
• Various strategies are devised to arrest or fragment its ongoingness, and to retrieve or redeem moments that seem to stand outside time or otherwise defy it.
• Simply to imagine it is to defy credibility: A phone rings in a boarding house in Mobile, Alabama.
• Basically, you'll be tugged along by a speedboat while standing atop a small surfboard-like platform, all the while performing aerial tricks and deft-defying maneuvers.