English example sentences with "defying"

The doctors say the dying man would have kicked the bucket hours ago if he were an ordinary man, but he is still defying death.
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He will repent bitterly for defying me.
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Single women are defying the usual gender gap by purchasing more homes than single men, even though female workers earn just 80 percent of what their male counterparts make.
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Defying the prognosis, the patient survived.
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Some young German adults have been defying the lockdown and holding so-called "corona parties."
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Defying gray skies, the participants, many on bicycles, brought placards and banners to a rally near the iconic Brandenburg Gate.
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Glorious London! Leviathan of human greed; palpitating hot-bed of iniquity and joy; Greek, Roman, Spanish, Saxon, Kelt, Scot, Pict, Norman and Dane have swept over thee like winter storms; and the mighty Cæsar, Julius of old, with a myriad of bucklered warriors and one hundred galleons of sailors, triple-oared mariners, defying wave and fate, have ploughed the placid face of Father Thames, startling the loud cry of hawk and bittern as his royal prows grated on thy strand, or skimmed over the marshes of thy infancy.
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The stickiness of the lizards' feet is legendary, giving them a unique and mysterious way of defying gravity.
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Prigozhin made defying statements.
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I'm a constant source of pleasant surprises, always exceeding expectations and defying stereotypes.
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The dozen women Boyle profiles in her book, Defying Gravity: A Celebration of Late Blooming Women, include a homemaker who was elected to the Connecticut House of Representatives at age 48, a 47-year-old breast cancer survivor who discovered an eye for photography, and a medical technician who became an anthropology professor.
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