defy

[dɪˈfaɪ]

Definition:
1. Resist or confront with resistance.
2. Elude, especially in a baffling way.
3. Challenge.

Use 'defy' in a sentence:

• 1. The occasion defies description.
• 2. We may be facing a hydra that defies any easy solution.
• 3. Working outside the system to defy it may also fail.
• 4. Nearly eleven-thousand people have been arrested for defying the ban on street trading.
• 5. The firm will continue to lobby lawmakers to pass laws penalising countries that defy American court judgments.
• 6. The London market looks likely to defy gravity for a while longer.
• 7. Just like you did in 2008, you can defy the conventional wisdom.
• 8. The singer continues to defy her age by wearing the scantiest of outfits.
• 9. There are many scientific observations that simply defy explanation.
• 10. Those who openly defy the law have been severely punished.
• 11. I wouldn't have dared to defy my teachers.
• 12. I defy you to come up with one major accomplishment of the current Prime Minister.
• 13. In the mobile world we have devices that require us to defy those practices.
• 14. I defy you to do it.
• 15. Its processes (such as they are) defy automation.
• 16. This was the first ( and last) time that I dared to defy my mother.
• 17. Her criteria defy analysis.
• 18. The beauty of the scenery along the Lijiang River defies description.
• 19. Jack was not afraid of the strong man, he defied him.
• 20. The case defies diagnosis.
• 21. This is the only organ in the body which seems to defy the aging process.
• 22. We had to defy them whatever the cost.
• 23. G Defy the park ranger.
• 24. This was the first (and last) time that I dared to defy my mother.
• 25. They may yet defy cynics and become a successful model for single-payer care.
• 26. He comes out to defy Israel.
• 27. A measure of GM’s desperation is that these options defy industrial logic.
• 28. The ambassadors will not defy her wishes if she demands that sanctions remain.
• 29. It is a way to defy our obscurity.
• 30. Movie magic can defy reality, but actors are inescapably human.
• 31. In Lucknow crowds of people defied the curfew to celebrate on the streets.
• 32. He won't allow anyone to defy his managerial authority.
• 33. Those few who defy the conventional wisdom are ignored.
• 34. Fierce-browed, I coolly defy a thousand pointing fingers; headbowed, like a willing ox I serve the children.
• 35. They believe it is essential to defy convention.
• 36. I promised myself I'd defy all the prophets of doom and battle back to fitness.
• 37. Criminals defy the law.
• 38. I defy you to come up with one major accomplishment of the current president.
• 39. Despite her wish to defy convention, she had become pregnant and married at 21.
• 40. Being exposed to women who defy the stereotype helps.
• 41. Such relationships may defy traditional labels.
• 42. When the flowers open in spring they fill the night air with a fragrance that defies description.
• 43. After that, life became a matter of defying school rules.
• 44. "The first time I go, they always defy you," she said.
• 45. Hundreds of people today defied the ban on political gatherings.
• 46. The roads here are quite a maze, criss-crossing one another in a fashion that at times defies logic.
• 47. We were in a disaster situation that defies description.
• 48. And I defy you to hurt him when I am by, and I defy you to frighten me!
• 49. He looked at me as if he was defying me to argue.
• 50. I defy anyone not to cry at the end of the film.
• 51. He defied Pope John Paul II by consecrating four bishops without his approval.
• 52. There can be a magic about love that defies all explanation.
• 53. The codes are so obscure and so flexible that they defy rational explanation.
• 54. The baby boy defied all the odds and survived.
• 55. It's a devastating and barbaric act that defies all comprehension.