Example sentences for: defiant

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

  • When Tracy comes upon Paul at a table, gathering signatures for his nominating petition, she responds with cold fury, but she also scrawls her name on his sheet--a complex, defiant, irreducible gesture.

  • The tobacco stance became official with a speech against the tough and expensive Senate bill by the RJR CEO, Steven Goldstone, described by the papers as "aggressive" and "defiant."

  • "If Jesse Ventura can participate in [the wrestling event] Summerslam," said one defiant follower, "then I can put up a Web site."

  • Clinton's misadventure put lesser issues in perspective: The pope's visit to Cuba, the defiant Saddam Hussein, the Korea bailout.

  • No less defiant than Castro himself, beneath the rubble this city is a living, breathing, vital, and sensual creature.


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