Example sentences for: defiantly

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

  • And sometimes ironically or defiantly people will call themselves by names intended to be pejorative or downright insulting, as when African Americans call each other nigger or Jews of Odessa call one of their folk heroes Poltorazhida `Yid-and-a-half.

  • 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.

  • Right away we're meant to think of Hester Prynne's big scarlet A, imposed by the godly community, which she defiantly embellished with gold thread.

  • My generic-pronoun usage is defiantly masculine, my descriptions are bluntly factual, my Holy Trinity is and always will be Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, world without end.

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


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