Example sentences for: defiantly

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

  • Despite a referendum vote by its citizens against separatism two years earlier, Québec was defiantly the only province not to sign the new constitution, feeling its cultural specificity had not been guaranteed.

  • The path-breaking professionals tend to stare defiantly into the camera: Imagine telling Dorothy A. Richman, a rabbinical student wrapped in phylacteries and holding a Torah, that she can't serve God!

  • They're half-right: The movie is a collision between inspiration and tastelessness, between the defiantly quirky and the wholesomely homogenized.

  • While Zimbabwe's Minister of Information Chen Chimutengwende justified the land-seizure plan by saying that "the government was only protecting white farmers from black peasants who, otherwise, would rise up and kill [them]," Mugabe had defiantly stated that he intended to go ahead with the seizures, the Star reported.

  • And sometimes ironically or defiantly people will call themselves by names intended to be pejorative or downright insulting, as when African Americans call each other nigger or Jews of Odessa call one of their folk heroes Poltorazhida `Yid-and-a-half.


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