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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:

(Feminists denounced Thomas but defend Clinton.)
And when the contents of a book are attacked, the editor is not obliged to defend them or even to have an opinion on the matter.
Recommendation: The Department of Defense and its oversight committees should regularly assess the adequacy of Northern Command's strategies and planning to defend the United States against military threats to the homeland.
Even legalization advocates are for the most part scared to defend drug use as a legitimate pleasure or the right to alter your own consciousness as a civil liberty; they just talk about "harm reduction."
Similarly, Bradley refuses to defend the mildly libertarian position Gore has assigned him on health care.