Example Sentences
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Love Defies Space and Time An evening of live music and theater includes a stage adaptation of Miranda Spigener-Sapon's time-travel romance "Coffee with John."
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2018
Wandering the Rock Hall on Tuesday morning, I found the ironies nearly too acute to list: banners reading “Music Defies Barriers” were lashed to actual barricades.
From The New Yorker • Jul. 20, 2016
Above its image — a turbaned magician plunging knives into an encased female assistant — reads an unambiguous description: "Defies Death."
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 2014
Farm Use of Antibiotics Defies Scrutiny The numbers released quietly by the federal government this year were alarming.
From New York Times • Sep. 3, 2012
A picture stands before my dazzled sight, Wherein the hero, ruthlessly elate, Defies all bowlers' concentrated spite.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, May 14, 1919 by Various
