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Example sentences for: defy

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Next came Casino, one of his periodic attempts to defy the expectation that he would defy expectations.
How did we have the hubris to defy the mainstream of current child-care wisdom?
Not until a 20th-century Western architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, arrived in Tokyo to build the earthquake-resistant Imperial Hotel was it considered possible — let alone desirable — to attempt to defy the ravages of nature.
Left for dead by the commentariat last week, President Clinton is Issues 1, 2, and 3 as he rises from the dead to defy last week's near-unanimous predictions that he would soon resign.
You'd think that photography, the most transparent of arts, would defy those pesky national stereotypes.