Example sentences for: defiantly

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

  • Each front-page features a photo of Boris Yeltsin, his hands raised, defiantly refuting rumors of his resignation.

  • What do you imagine happens to Mary's friend when she ignores the warnings issued by the good reverend to her father and the preaching of Mary herself and defiantly keeps popping ephedrine?

  • Whereas Montréal has become increasingly “Americanized,” the provincial capital remains unmistakably, even defiantly Québécois, if not downright “French.”

  • They're half-right: The movie is a collision between inspiration and tastelessness, between the defiantly quirky and the wholesomely homogenized.

  • For true instinct, you must turn to Mike Figgis, an English director ( Leaving Las Vegas , 1995, One Night Stand , 1997) who's defiantly not a player and whose pixilated, semi-autobiographical, semi-allegorical The Loss of Sexual Innocence would not have got past the mall focus groups that evidently embraced Instinct . It nearly didn't get past the screening that I caught at Manhattan's indie-friendly Angelika Film Center, which was marked by uneasy throat clearing and lots of walkouts.


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