How to Use defiantly in a Sentence

defiantly

adverb

• 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
• 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
• 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 raid on her apartment early in the film, Holiday strips down, defiantly challenging him to search her.
  — Anne Cohen, refinery29.com, 1 Mar. 2021
• 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
• As Zaffan defiantly lashes back, the girls collapse to the floor in fits and a mass hysteria sweeps through the school, with rumors of a dark spirt haunting the halls infecting even the imaginations of the teachers.
  — Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 May 2023
• The film was eclipsed by its own poster, which showed Welch’s cavewoman character in a deer-skin bikini standing defiantly on a mountain summit.
  — Libby Banks, Vogue, 15 Feb. 2023
• Despite his plea and those of Democrats and a Republican sheriff, the post remained defiantly in place until a week after the Capitol attack.
  — Jay Reeves and Julie Carr Smythe, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Jan. 2021
• The move came three weeks after the 46-year-old, who is facing criminal charges in Spain, defiantly rejected calls to step aside, insisting that the player had consented to the kiss.
  — Laura Millan Lombrana, Fortune, 10 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Nov 2024