How to Use defiantly in a Sentence

defiantly

adverb

• Trump held his fist in the air defiantly as he was rushed off stage.
  — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 14 July 2024
• Some of them are pieces that are defiantly claiming the space.
  — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Mar. 2024
• The Nation in those days was still kind of a throwback, defiantly clinging to the old ways.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 26 Jan. 2023
• The Terps had five-goal leads twice in the second half, but couldn’t pull away from Michigan, which defiantly chipped away at the deficit.
  — Edward Lee, baltimoresun.com, 26 Feb. 2021
• The taxi in the video — with no people inside — defiantly stays put.
  — David Ingram, NBC News, 14 June 2023
• After walking to the ring while hearing plenty of boos from the pro-Davis crowd, Romero bounced off the ropes and hopped around defiantly.
  — Brian Mahoney, ajc, 29 May 2022
• The Peaches are a senior softball team of ladies who defiantly refuse to grow up.
  — Mark Kiszla, The Denver Post, 28 June 2020
• The album’s 11 songs are defiantly of the moment and a direct result of her return to L.A.
  — Steve Appleford, Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2024
• The rehearsals brought laughter, and at times damp eyes, chins raised, and heads defiantly held forward.
  — Jesse Bedayn, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Dec. 2022
• In his hand is a paper, defiantly thrust toward the picture plane.
  — Jason Farago, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2023
• The video stars a nude Margaret Cho defiantly standing on a pedestal as Wood holds two male nude figures between her arms.
  — Eva Recinos, Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2023
• Yet artifice and absence are basic to the modern myth of the writer, which Sarr both mocks and defiantly claims.
  — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
• The look is defiantly retro, but the fresh, clean lines and warm tactical appeal are updated, inviting and easy to live with.
  — Vicki Payne, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
• The center’s shop owners defiantly fly the old, South Vietnamese flag.
  — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2023
• A lot of the season was defiantly idiosyncratic like that.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 11 Oct. 2024
• Adams defiantly maintained his innocence in the face of the criminal charges levied against him on Sept. 26.
  — Emily Hallas, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 3 Oct. 2024
• As the other students started to cry, they were told to sit down, but Wauneka stood defiantly and took the whippings until her hands bled.
  — Arlyssa D. Becenti, The Arizona Republic, 28 Jan. 2023
• But like many, 25-year-old Haj Amir defiantly hoisted one over his shoulder.
  — Jennifer Ludden, NPR, 9 Apr. 2024
• Biden has so far rejected the drop-out pressure, defiantly pledging to stay in the race and trying to shift the conversation back to Trump.
  — Rebecca Picciotto, CNBC, 12 July 2024
• In a pair of scenes, Riklis defiantly reminds the viewer of Amini when Farahani looks in the mirror, puts on a headscarf and then removes it.
  — Tomris Laffly, Variety, 25 Oct. 2024
• In a raid on her apartment early in the film, Holiday strips down, defiantly challenging him to search her.
  — Anne Cohen, refinery29.com, 1 Mar. 2021
• Many stand confidently, even defiantly, arms crossed within a few feet of the floor-to-ceiling bars, trying to get a better look at us.
  — David Culver, CNN, 6 Nov. 2024
• The poem ends with the answer, which is humble, hopeful and defiantly human.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Aug. 2022
• And once again, Texas is asking taxpayers in Minnesota and the other states to pay for what Texans defiantly refuse to pay for themselves.
  — Tom Horner, Star Tribune, 18 Feb. 2021
• When threats from China are on the uptick, there’s a reaction by mainly the youth to become more Taiwanese, perhaps defiantly Taiwanese.
  — Eddie Lin, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2023
• But through it all, Nas has remained defiantly himself.
  — Rachel Yang, EW.com, 5 Apr. 2021
• There was, as Fox defiantly insisted, a wall between opinion and news.
  — Mark Joyella, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
• Catholic schools that do not follow the catechism and tenets of Catholicism, or worse, defiantly adopt policies that contradict them, are not truly Catholic schools.
  — cleveland, 12 Sep. 2023
• My father stood up, bravely and defiantly and eloquently against the moral crusaders and fought for his — and everyone’s — First Amendment right to publish.
  — Bob Guccione Jr, Spin, 20 Sep. 2023
• Just then, Noriko calls from prison, and Suzie is able to take the call because Zen, her brilliant and defiantly untraumatized little boy, somehow hid her device (no one calls them phones on this show) before the yakuza henchman searched her.
  — Chris Klimek, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Jan 2025