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Example sentences for: defend

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

The questions range from asking whether Clinton took an oath to defend the Constitution, to whether he ever gave Lewinsky cigars.
(I cannot defend Nashville.)
One is the small but exquisite Torre de Belém, a romantic medieval fortress (particularly when floodlit by night) erected in 1515 to defend the entry to Lisbon and one of the finest examples of Manueline architecture (see page 25).
Nor is communication really disrupted even by those new, semiliterate Americanisms: communic ant , consult ant , defend ant; counsel or, elect or (al), jur or , where the schwa (as a in above, e in her ) has been replaced by broad (- ant ) or rounded (- or ) vowel sounds.
Not wanting to steal thunder from historian Alan Brinkley and Reagan biographer Dinesh D'Souza, who are scheduled to debate the book in Slate next week, Culturebox won't defend what Morris has written--she can't, anyway, having read only the Newsweek excerpt--but will lay out a few arguments for why he has, in principle, every right to try to write this way, but can't make it work.