How to Use defense mechanism in a Sentence

defense mechanism

noun

• She is projecting her anger on you as a defense mechanism.
• The kind that with a turn of the head became a self-defense mechanism.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 Oct. 2020
• She's been through a lot in her life and put up walls as a defense mechanism.
  — Marie Claire, 2 Aug. 2021
• My sense of humor is kind of born out of a self-defense mechanism.
  — Marcus Jones, EW.com, 7 Dec. 2019
• Tourist guides say, with a flourish, that the metal rings were a defense mechanism against tigers who went for the neck.
  — New York Times, 5 Dec. 2020
• This defense mechanism is a great way to fool a predator.
  — Traci Howerton, NOLA.com, 13 Aug. 2020
• But while studying the role of the brain’s immune cells in Alzheimer’s disease, his group found that the dense plaques might be part of the brain's defense mechanism.
  — Jackie Rocheleau, Forbes, 27 Apr. 2021
• Fever acts as a kind of defense mechanism for our bodies.
  — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 22 Jan. 2014
• For the date itself, Jason and Clare take a stroll down to a campfire and talk about humor as a defense mechanism.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 21 Oct. 2020
• It’s a weird peacock flex mixed with a defense mechanism.
  — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 8 Apr. 2021
• For us by us The framers saw impeachment as a defense mechanism, not a punitive one.
  — Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 14 Dec. 2019
• Rachel suggests that Ben shut down as a defense mechanism.
  — Lia Beck, refinery29.com, 21 Dec. 2020
• One of the keys to their success is an ingenious defense mechanism: slime.
  — Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian, 27 Feb. 2017
• Which is the body's defense mechanism, but also a good lesson in taking you out of your comfort zone.
  — Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Oct. 2019
• Is living in fear a good defense mechanism or a hindrance?
  — Dana Scott, azcentral, 4 June 2020
• That's where the carnivorous cobra lily comes in—and their self defense mechanism could also save the rest of the plants in your garden.
  — Elizabeth Gulino, House Beautiful, 19 July 2019
• Hatching seemed to be the frogs’ broad-spectrum defense mechanism.
  — Suzie Hodges, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Sep. 2022
• But instead of ejecting evil spirits from their body, the creatures puke their guts out as a defense mechanism.
  — Corryn Wetzel, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Oct. 2020
• Its venom, delivered through grooved teeth, serves both as a defense mechanism and as a means to subdue prey.
  — Scott Travers, Forbes, 14 Sep. 2024
• Other sea slugs that eat poisonous sponges store that poison in their bodies to use as a defense mechanism.
  — Rose Eveleth, WIRED, 31 Dec. 2022
• Those antibodies and immune cells are the defense mechanism the body uses to attack the virus.
  — Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2021
• It’s a defense mechanism, as employees may feel safer at home.
  — Melinda Fouts, Ph.d., Forbes, 22 Oct. 2021
• With all of this harsh reality, what may have come off as distanced to some was perhaps a defense mechanism for the sake of self-survival.
  — Jem Aswad, Variety, 20 Jan. 2022
• The Book of Boba Fett, however, has no defense mechanism, much to its detriment.
  — Graeme McMillan, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Jan. 2022
• Stress is one of evolution’s greatest tricks and our brain’s best defense mechanism.
  — Jeff Stibel, USA TODAY, 12 June 2018
• Find out more about the hawkmoth’s NSFW defense mechanism by listening to this week’s episode.
  — Popsci Staff, Popular Science, 6 May 2020
• This was, of course, a defense mechanism, secured with much false bravado and nervous laughter.
  — Sylvia Poggioli, The New York Review of Books, 29 Mar. 2020
• And humor can be the defense mechanism our bodies need to become more resilient in the face of adversity.
  — Heather Greenwood Davis, Family, 22 Dec. 2020
• In humans, for example, a fever is a defense mechanism designed to raise the body temperature to kill a virus.
  — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 19 Mar. 2020
• And some strains of the virus appear to have developed defense mechanisms against the interferon response, blunting its effect.
  — Saima S. Iqbal, Scientific American, 3 July 2024

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024