Examples of defiant in a Sentence
He's taken a defiant stand on the issue.
the defiant puppy refused to let go of the football
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Near the close of the No Kings rally in Lincolnwood on Saturday afternoon, the chants rang out from beneath the waving American flag with a defiant twist.
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Shun Graves, Chicago Tribune, 30 Mar. 2026
If anything, the regime is more defiant, belligerent, and brazen, determined to prevail at any cost.
—Sudarsan Raghavan, New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2026
Rejecting that, Zuckerberg’s defiant testimony saw the billionaire, who doesn’t let his own kids use his products, admitting Instagram, for example, had few guardrails and not much of anything in terms of anage verification system until just a few years ago.
—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 24 Mar. 2026
Sadly, the last Blockbuster (aside from one defiant Bend, Oregon, outlier) went out to pasture in 2014, and independent video stores are an increasingly rare sight.
—Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 19 Mar. 2026
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Shun Graves, Chicago Tribune, 30 Mar. 2026
If anything, the regime is more defiant, belligerent, and brazen, determined to prevail at any cost.
—Sudarsan Raghavan, New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2026
Rejecting that, Zuckerberg’s defiant testimony saw the billionaire, who doesn’t let his own kids use his products, admitting Instagram, for example, had few guardrails and not much of anything in terms of anage verification system until just a few years ago.
—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 24 Mar. 2026
Sadly, the last Blockbuster (aside from one defiant Bend, Oregon, outlier) went out to pasture in 2014, and independent video stores are an increasingly rare sight.
—Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 19 Mar. 2026
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“Defiant.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/defiant. Accessed 5 Apr. 2026.
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defiant
adjective
de·fi·ant
di-ˈfī-ənt 
defiantly
adverb
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