How to Use defection in a Sentence

defection

noun

• But Exxon, too, may struggle to prevent defections given high spending and a lack of buybacks.
  — Liam Denning | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2019
• The defections are a big reason Kelly has relied on so many underclassmen.
  — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2019
• No other president in modern history has provoked so many high-level defections.
  — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2024
• Harris, meanwhile, has worked to stave off defections from the left over her support for arming Israel in its war against Hamas in Gaza.
  — Brian Bennett / Washington, TIME, 30 Oct. 2024
• Facebook faces a rough road ahead with Libra, but defections by high-profile partners are still unlikely to spell the end for the digital currency.
  — Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2019
• The company blamed the shortfall on weak original content and customer defections due to a price increase, and doesn’t believe competition was a factor.
  — Glenn Peoples, Billboard, 2 Oct. 2019
• After receiver Tyrell Shavers dropped the towering defection, Kaho covered the loose ball for a touchdown.
  — Michael Casagrande | [e-mail], al, 29 Sep. 2019
• One of them is Chris Ahn, who Kim called on to help with a high-profile defection.
  — Seyward Darby, Longreads, 25 Nov. 2020
• But the margin for error is small — just one defection in the Senate, and the whole thing falls apart.
  — Ryan Cooper, The Week, 24 June 2021
• Have the stakes for last year’s 11 win Dolphins team been raised because of the free agent defections?
  — Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 2 May 2024
• This is a rare case where a defection works for all parties.
  — oregonlive, 11 Dec. 2019
• Late defections give this late-running colt a ticket to the Big Show.
  — Melissa Hoppert, New York Times, 5 May 2023
• The same applies on the other side of the ball with the defection of Randy Gregory to Denver.
  — Dallas News, 24 May 2022
• The departure of the Ducks and Huskies could spell the end of the Pac-12 since further defections are almost assured.
  — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2023
• Baseball became king in a city still irate about the defection of the NFL’s Chargers.
  — Bryce Miller Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Mar. 2021
• Democrats control only 50 votes, and a Manchin defection could have sunk the bill.
  — Susan Ferrechio, Washington Examiner, 5 Mar. 2021
• His defection from the gang life came at a violent cost.
  — Lynnell Hancock, The New Republic, 23 Nov. 2021
• One is that [the West is] working overtime to entice a defection.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2022
• The arrival of the new tour and the defection of PGA Tour stars were major disruptions in what has been a stable and even staid sport.
  — New York Times, 16 June 2022
• But among those who do not, Mr. Trump loses 31% of them to Biden, a higher defection rate than the other two states.
  — Jennifer De Pinto, Fred Backus, Anthony Salvanto, CBS News, 25 Oct. 2020
• The first half of the 2010s saw more bad press with the release of Wright’s book and Gibney’s doc, as well as the high-profile defection of Leah Remini.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 15 July 2023
• After Brooks Koepka did an about-face in the span of one week in June, no one should be surprised by any defection.
  — Doug Ferguson, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Aug. 2022
• North Korea has yet to comment publicly on the news of Jo's defection.
  — Yoonjung Seo, Jake Kwon and Julia Hollingsworth, CNN, 8 Oct. 2020
• The defection of Shapen means ASU has no quarterback in its 2020 signing class, at least not yet.
  — Michelle Gardner, azcentral, 5 Dec. 2019
• There have been ax killings, U.S. bomber fly-bys, and desperate defections along the border.
  — Foster Klug, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 July 2023
• The low defection rate may be a factor in AT&T’s decision.
  — Scott Moritz, Fortune, 3 May 2022
• Skinner now moves into the No. 21 spot on the Kentucky Derby points leaderboard and needs one defection to make the race.
  — Jason Frakes, The Courier-Journal, 23 Apr. 2023
• The defection no one understood was that of Andriy Koshelev.
  — James Verini Paolo Pellegrin, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2023
• That’s the coalition that came undone by the defection of a single member in July.
  — Sanya Mansoor, Time, 29 Oct. 2022
• It could have been used to decrease morale and encourage defections at a moment of panic.
  — Peter Pomerantsev, Foreign Affairs, 11 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024