How to Use defender in a Sentence

defender

noun

• Shot the ball well, good defender, won championships, always on winning teams.
  — Scott Horner, The Indianapolis Star, 18 Oct. 2022
• The second cannon was found on the battlefield itself and had been fired by the Spanish defenders.
  — Jack Guy, CNN, 18 Dec. 2024
• Shortstop Willy Adames, the team’s best defender in 2022, was left off the list of finalists.
  — Journal Sentinel, 21 Oct. 2022
• Senior defender Aiden Byrd and junior keeper Landon Barth were on the first team.
  — James Weber, The Enquirer, 20 Oct. 2022
• Kahlef Hailassie is a lockdown defender for the Hilltoppers and leads the secondary at the corner position.
  — Evan Dudley, al, 20 Oct. 2022
• Better to put in place GPS jamming or spoofing so that defenders can, for example, hijack control of a drone and land it.
  — Anna Mulrine Grobe, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Dec. 2024
• When Aloni was in fifth grade, Gilbert shared a video of him dominating during one of his basketball games, dribbling around defenders and hitting tough 3-point shots.
  — Skyler Trepel, People.com, 17 Dec. 2024
• LeBrun shadows the opposition’s top offensive player, tenaciously forcing turnovers as a stout one-one-one defender.
  — Cam Kerry, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Oct. 2022
• The public defender does not set bail; that is the role of the judge.
  — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 13 Aug. 2024
• But when the ball was snapped, many of those defenders peeled back.
  — Jasmine Cui, NBC News, 19 Nov. 2023
• West’s high trump wins the defenders’ third and last trick.
  — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 15 Sep. 2024
• And that defender, with his eyes on the attacker, is blind to the pick.
  — Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2024
• The sophomore defender hadn’t even scored a goal in high school.
  — Steve Millar, Chicago Tribune, 26 May 2023
• The court’s defenders had reason to think the country was at a precipice.
  — Emily Bazelon, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2023
• Ashford even said the UMass defenders weren’t able to keep up with his speed.
  — Matt Cohen | [e-mail], al, 2 Sep. 2023
• The first was a 15-yard post route over the middle where Lewis beat his defender for an easy pitch-and-catch.
  — Peter Warren, Dallas News, 27 Dec. 2022
• The work of Amazon defenders, and those willing to take the risk to report on it, lives on.
  — Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 June 2023
• Their best chance was a header from defender Chris Mepham that went wide just on the stroke of half-time.
  — Time, 21 Nov. 2022
• Quentin Grimes is a great shooter and a great defender.
  — Mat Issa, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
• Nayef Aguerd, the central defender, fell by the wayside in warm-ups.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 15 Dec. 2022
• But as Butler searched for an opening to the rim, his defender slid over to cut him off.
  — Andrew Keh, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2023
• Brandon Miller received the ball off a screen and beat his defender to the rim to score with four seconds left.
  — Mike Rodak | [e-mail], al, 22 Feb. 2023
• In the 82nd minute, Bethany Arabe beat two defenders and hit a shot from outside the goalkeepers’ box to make it 2-0.
  — Ryan Finley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Dec. 2023
• Tide defender Brooke Steere said other teams will press for the first 10 minutes of the game or the second half.
  — Michael Casagrande | [e-mail], al, 2 Dec. 2022
• Then the guard turned his body to firmly plant himself in front of Lewis’ defender to give the shooter space.
  — Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 30 Mar. 2024
• Of the three goals Salt Lake conceded, one was an own goal by defender Justen Glad.
  — Alex Vejar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 July 2023
• Oregon State defender Gael Gibert met the ball but failed to clear it.
  — Mitchell Forde, oregonlive, 20 Nov. 2022
• After Elliott snapped the ball, he was knocked over by a defender.
  — Calvin Watkins, Dallas News, 15 Mar. 2023
• On a second-down play in the first quarter, Sanders took a handoff, juked a defender and ran for three yards.
  — Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2024
• Some of that is her value as a decoy, or to keep one defender away from Jones or Cameron Brink.
  — Marisa Ingemi, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 9 Jan 2025