| We ended up at karaoke night in a dive where the waitress's hair defied gravity. |
| He reads the game well, attacked with purpose and put many of his senior teammates to shame with a display which defied his years. |
| The next day thousands of workers defied armed police and blockaded a major toll road into the provincial capital. |
| Our politics continue to shift leftward and away from its conservative groove at a pace that has defied predictions. |
| Soon I had amassed a large record collection while, simultaneously, building up a vaseline-walled quiff which defied gravity. |
| Slowly, its lower jaw dropped until its mouth was an impossible maw, a gaping hole that defied definition. |
