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Example sentences for: defiance

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If, on the other hand, I turn round and do it to you, it probably means that I am turning in heroic defiance, wheeling in righteous indignation, turning on my tormentors.
Under it, supposedly, is Imhotep (Arnold Vosloo), an ancient priest discovered--in the movie's prologue--in a compromising position with the Pharaoh's mistress, who kills herself in an act of feminist defiance.
Yes, Night will devour Day, but Macbeth's significant meaning here is: under cover of darkness—in reckless defiance of weird authority—he will have his black agents eliminate the bonded progenitor of Scottish kings, along with his only progeny.
"In defiance of the Justice Department, debut of Windows 2000 Happy Meals."
Many of the soldiers, like Takamori himself, died by their own hand in a final gesture of defiance.