| A generation ago, women defied convention by burning bras and moving in with boyfriends. |
| 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. |
| Soon I had amassed a large record collection while, simultaneously, building up a vaseline-walled quiff which defied gravity. |
| We ended up at karaoke night in a dive where the waitress's hair defied gravity. |
| Lord Morley appears to have risen to repeat the accusation against Salisbury and the latter to have defied him to prove it by wager of battle. |
