Defying Synonyms and Antonyms

Defying Sentence Examples

• She lifted her chin, defying him to lash out at her again.

• She tore her gaze away and twisted her head, yielding yet defying him as well.

• A tear rolled down her cheek and made a death defying leap to her coat.

• So early as the beginning of July, Austrian officers, with the permission of the minister of war, had joined the Serb insurgents who, under Stratemirovic, were defying the Magyar power in the banat.

• The proclamation on the 26th of February 1861 of the new constitution for the whole monarchy, elaborated by Anton von Schmerling, though far from satisfying the national aspirations of the races within the empire, at least gave Austria a temporary popularity in Germany; the liberalism of the Habsburg monarchy was favourably contrasted with the " reactionary " policy of Prussia, where Bismarck was defying the majority of the diet in his determination to build up the military power of Prussia.