Words similar to defending

Example sentences for: defending

How can you use “defending” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Who is defending what policy?
At several points in our inquiry, we asked, "Who is responsible for defending us at home?"
David Horowitz, right-wing firebrand and head of the Center for the Study of Popular Culture, has taken out an ad in six college newspapers excoriating "tenured radicals" for defending the distorted autobiographical writings of Guatemalan Nobel laureate and activist Rigoberta Menchú.
He seems just as uncomfortable railing against abortion in this election as he was defending it in the last one--perhaps because he's faking it, perhaps because he worries that pro-lifers think he's faking it, and perhaps because he worries that pro-choicers think he's not.
He catapulted the heads of dead Arabs into the city to dishearten those still defending the citadel.