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• He folded his arms in defiance.From the entry fold
• The administration isn’t even pretending that it forced China to pay any special price for its defiance.2025 May 12, Jonathan Chait, “China Called Trump’s Bluff”, in The Atlantic. From the entry memory-hole
• At the intersection of femcelcore and heteropessimism is a hard kernel of defiance.2024, Zowie Douglas-Kinghorn, “The return of the femcel”, in The Griffith Review. From the entry femcelcore
• This defiance was not a fit of pique, but a matter of principle.1994, Nelson Mandela, chapter 1, in Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company…. From the entry pique
• Tom of the fluid pelvis, undulating about the living room in defiance of Michael's taboo on sensuality.1983 December 31, Kenneth Hale-Wehmann, “The Business of Sex and Affection”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 24, page 8. From the entry fluid
• The recusant captains must have known how dangerous their defiance was to them, yet they risked it.1981, Donald Kagan, The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition. From the entry recusant
• To exchange flesh with Roger she would bid all the world defiance.1977, Jane Lane, A Secret Chronicle: Edward II (2002 House of Stratus reprint), page 140 (Google preview). From the entry exchange flesh
• I reached up without thinking, actually a desperate oratorical gesture of disagreement and defiance.1952, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, Penguin Books (2014), page 558. From the entry oratorical
• “I respond to extreme pain with defiance.”2023 December 6, Sam Lansky, “Person of Year 2023 : Taylor Swift”, in Time, archived from the original on 06 Dec 2023. From the entry coping mechanism
• Defiance On other people or their thinking.2017, Armin Mitchell, BattleRhymes, volume 2. From the entry faken
• Warfare is a condition in which there is more greed and more grievance, more deterrence and more defiance.2010, John Braithwaite, Valerie Braithwaite, Michael Cookson, Anomie and Violence, →ISBN. From the entry grievance
• All of them hurled their defiance at “bushwa” law.1984, Melvyn Dubofsky, “Socialism and Syndicalism”, in John H. M. Laslett, Seymour Martin Lipset, editors, Failure of a Dream?: Essays in…. From the entry bushwah
• Both have latent narrative appeal in their generation of tension and conflict, their unpredictability, their defiance of hierarchy and authority.1983, Wendy Griswold, “The Devil's Techniques: Cultural Legitimation and Social Change”, in American Sociological Review, volume 48…. From the entry tension
• Her brown wedgies squeaked with discount price defiance, as she walked redly and pinkly along the broken brick sidewalk.1963 (date written), John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces, London: Penguin Books, published 1980 (1981 printing), →ISBN. From the entry wedgie
• It was a new humpy of bark and saplings, quaintly impressive of white man’s defiance of the wild.1937, Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, published 1947, page 79. From the entry humpy
• I met his judgmental stare with a counter stare that I liked to think conveyed defiance. (Admittedly, without a mirror it was hard to tell.2023, London Lovett, Better Off Shortbread. From the entry googly-eyed
• He displaces the violence emblemized by the whaling industry away from whales and onto humankind's fate while transcoding Ahab's defiance as the whale's defiance.2021, Rebecca Giggs, Timothy Sweet, page 91. From the entry whalekind
• It was not fear for her own safety that prompted her defiance of the surveiler; but the welfare of the old horse.2019 January 10, Margaret Wiese, Margene Wiese-Baier, Wymans Creek, WestBow Press, →ISBN. From the entry surveiler
• Bears and wolves, clearly under the effect of natural magic spells, gritted their teeth and growled menacingly, while snakes hissed in defiance.2018 May 26, Joel Puga, “Chapter 6 Faiths”, in The Godungava, Joel Puga. From the entry brownie
• Mancunians have shown their defiance in the face of terror after a suicide bomber killed 22 people in the city on Monday night.2017 May 23, Sarah Ann Harris, “Manchester bombing prompts extraordinary messages of defiance: ‘F*ck terrorism stick the kettle on.’”, in…. From the entry Mancunian
• We grow weary of our paltry carnal transports, our ebulliences of defiance, our abortive expeditions to the frontiers of the respectable world.2016, David Bentley Hart, “Charles Baudelaire: From within the Veil”, in Kenneth Oakes, editor, Christian Wisdom Meets Modernity…. From the entry ebullience
• So the pirates journey to London in cheerful, blinkered defiance of the Queen, a hotheaded schemer whose royal crest reads simply “I hate pirates.”2012 April 26, Tasha Robinson, “Film: Reviews: The Pirates! Band Of Misfits :”, in The Onion AV Club. From the entry deceive
• He despised being away from the rest of the student body and would occasionally act out in defiance by smarting off or by being uncooperative.2002, Ken Lockette, "Surviving the Soviet Legacy, in A World of Teaching: Personal Journeys Through the World's English-Speaking…. From the entry smart off
• He thus strikes a posture of defiance, an antishame posture that is one of the most popular ways of combating shame in Melville's characters.1997, Joseph Adamson, Melville, Shame, and the Evil Eye: A Psychoanalytic Reading, page 72. From the entry antishame
• By his hubristic defiance of time, Dorian wanders into an infrahuman realm where he is at the mercy of pitiless daemonic agents.1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae. From the entry infrahuman
• Denouncing music and dismissing reason, Disdaining song as being out of season, Mindless, remindless, in defiance they dare Transplant earth's rhyming roots to rarer air.1951, The Georgia Review - Volume 5, page 232. From the entry remindless
• In Fraenkel’s defiance of mortality and professionalism and his skill in navigating the triple state lay part of the origins of his idea of the dual state.2020, Douglas G. Morris, The Ernst Fraenkel Dilemma, page 208. From the entry illegality
• In defiance of Cristoforian tradition, the bass end of the bridge terminates in the typical Italian short mitered section and the bass strings are hitched on the soundboard.1999, Early Keyboard Journal, volumes 16-17, page 44. From the entry Cristoforian
• In the Communist party he found what many intellectuals need: absolute certainty in defiance of facts, an opportunity of total commitment that supersedes criticism and stills every anxiety.1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume III: The Breakdown, Oxford…. From the entry opportunity
• Holly’s school art project—an old bathtub that had been painted with daisies and avant-garde designs—squatted in the comer, its nailpolished lion’s feet gripping the cement floor in defiance.1970, William C[harles] Anderson, “The Blues Migratoria”, in Roll Up the Wallpaper, We’re Moving!, New York, N.Y.: Crown Publishers, Inc.…. From the entry nailpolished
• Overhead, the black flag with the white skull-and-crossbones symbolizing defiance of radio regulations fluttered limply atop the two-hundred-foot mast mounted on the converted coaster from which they operated.1969, John Brunner, chapter IX, in Double, Double, London: Gateway, Hachette, published 2011, →ISBN. From the entry skull and crossbones
• Now, hearing the man made conreate by that virile voice, her whole nature roused to defiance and to an oversweeping desire to see him face to face.1913, G. B Lancaster, The Law-bringers, Hodder and Stoughton, page 58. From the entry oversweeping
• Oh, could I see as then That figure of defiance, as he stood, Isled in a hush, in all his goodlihood, Superb, majestical, a man of men!1910, Jay Broadus Hubbell, Franklin Plato Eller, John Carlton Eller. From the entry goodlihood
• There is the small effortless chupse of indifference; the thin hard chupse of mere disdain; the long, liquid, vibrating chupse which shakes the rafters and expresses every kind of defiance."1970, Frank A Collymore, Notes for a glossary of words and phrases of Barbadian dialect. From the entry chupse

Meaning of defiance

1. noun The feeling, or spirit of being defiant.
2. noun Open or bold resistance to or disregard for authority, opposition, or power; refusing to give up.
3. noun A challenging attitude or behaviour; challenge.

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Questions about defiance in a sentence

How do you use defiance in a sentence?

Defiance is used as a noun. For example: “He folded his arms in defiance.”

What is a short sentence with defiance?

“He folded his arms in defiance.”

What does defiance mean?

Defiance means the feeling, or spirit of being defiant.