| Soon I had amassed a large record collection while, simultaneously, building up a vaseline-walled quiff which defied gravity. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| We ended up at karaoke night in a dive where the waitress's hair defied gravity. |
| He defied the Chinese Communist government and spent almost 18 years in the laogai or Chinese gulag. |
