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
  • Bain snatched the hat but marched defiantly straight to the stage to greet Goodell.
    — Rick Stroud, The Orlando Sentinel, 1 May 2026
  • The taxi in the video — with no people inside — defiantly stays put.
    — David Ingram, NBC News, 14 June 2023
  • But Iran has pushed back defiantly against that key demand.
    — Nic Robertson, CNN Money, 1 May 2026
  • There are all these amazing places that are defiantly screening movies.
    — Marah Eakin, Vulture, 20 May 2026
  • In his hand is a paper, defiantly thrust toward the picture plane.
    — Jason Farago, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2023
  • 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
  • The Peaches are a senior softball team of ladies who defiantly refuse to grow up.
    — Mark Kiszla, The Denver Post, 28 June 2020
  • 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
  • In the speech, Yoon defiantly vowed to fight against the efforts to remove him from office.
    — Dan Perry, Newsweek, 3 Jan. 2025
  • The house was reduced to rubble, save for the stone chimney, which stands defiantly, ocean waves still crashing in the background.
    — Claire Fahy, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2025
  • In a city where the skyline is constantly changing and new trends emerge daily, some places remain defiantly the same.
    — Ana Gutierrez, Austin American Statesman, 5 Aug. 2025
  • The poem ends with the answer, which is humble, hopeful and defiantly human.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Aug. 2022
  • One, in black and white, showed two women, standing defiantly, with their arms interlocked and their backs pressed against each other.
    — New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
  • 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 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
  • There was, as Fox defiantly insisted, a wall between opinion and news.
    — Mark Joyella, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
  • These days there’s a much sharper scene, but one that remains defiantly independent.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Apr. 2026
  • But like many, 25-year-old Haj Amir defiantly hoisted one over his shoulder.
    — Jennifer Ludden, NPR, 9 Apr. 2024
  • The center’s shop owners defiantly fly the old, South Vietnamese flag.
    — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 28 Sep. 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • What Chalamet has been doing feels defiantly risky.
    — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 22 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • Fickell was asked about this report after the game on Saturday and defiantly denied it.
    — Matt Audilet, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Some of the rally attendees waved flags and held signs defiantly next to or in front of supporters of Tennessee’s law.
    — Jo Yurcaba, NBC News, 5 Dec. 2024
  • 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

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