Example sentences for: defiant

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

  • The artist, looking either terrified or defiant, is peeling back a bandage to reveal the scars left by bullets from would-be assassin Valerie Solanas' gun.

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

  • A statue depicts a group of defiant freedom fighters.

  • But Estonia has been increasingly defiant: It switched official allegiance from the Russian to the Greek Orthodox Church, criticized Russia's war in Chechnya, and imposed requirements that make it difficult for its Russian-speaking minority to become citizens.

  • Starr responded to the Jones result by holding his first extensive meeting with the press since January (which the NYT characterizes as "defiant, sometimes rambling"), in the driveway of his home.


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