| Slowly, its lower jaw dropped until its mouth was an impossible maw, a gaping hole that defied definition. |
| A baby lamb born weighing less than a bag of sugar has defied all the odds. |
| Having won the balance of power, Peters defied his own election promises and realigned himself with the National Party and its pro-market agenda. |
| We ended up at karaoke night in a dive where the waitress's hair defied gravity. |
| A generation ago, women defied convention by burning bras and moving in with boyfriends. |
| The next day thousands of workers defied armed police and blockaded a major toll road into the provincial capital. |
