He had never seen defiance on her face before, but there was no mistaking it, and he knew then and there that he had lost his control over her.
In defiance of his wishes, his body was cremated instead of buried, and, as an added insult, his wife's boyfriend's children spilled the ashes on the rug, and they were vacuumed up and tossed in the trash.
Our daughter just turned thirteen, and is already showing some healthy teenage defiance towards me and my husband.
The victim glared at the defendant's attorney in defiance, and proclaimed again that she was telling the truth.
Any defiance will not be tolerated at school.
The child showed his defiance by refusing to be fed by his frustrated mother.
I was momentarily taken aback by the kitten's sudden defiance.
Due to the girl's continued defiance of basic school rules, she is serving a detention.
Children may use the word "rebellion" in a sentence like, "My sister is in rebellion against our parents' rules by staying out past curfew." In this context, they are describing an act of defiance or disobedience.
You could see the defiance on the plaintiff's face, because Angela was determined to win the case against her brother.
The defiance the teenager showed towards her parents was outrageous. Defiance is the quality of being defiant. In this case, it means that the teenager was disobeying something that her parents asked of her. To defy is to angrily disobey.
Prisoners are being paraded in defiance of all international conventions.In her defiance of the curfew, she came home later than usual
HE took the car in defiance of his father. or he looked into her eyes and saw a flash of defiance.
a defiant act, a hostile challenge............
You can use the word Truss in a sentence like this.
Can you use the word concluding in a sentence? Done.