Defence example sentence. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use defence in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for defence.
- I am on my defence. (10)
- It was now a fixed defence. (10)
- An old man, utterly defenceless, making no defence! (10)
- It was a capital spot for a defence. (19)
- So Soames went steadily on with his defence. (8)
- Each one was a defence against hunger and want. (5)
- That closes the evidence for the defence, my lord. (8)
- And on that ground, it started the voluble defence. (10)
- Cynthia broke under the defence she was trying to make. (9)
- In dumb show they are equally good for attack and defence. (10)
- This was the case for the defence, and young Jolyon sighed. (8)
- Mrs. March would not deign a direct defence of her favorite. (9)
- He got up and methodically put away the draft of his defence. (8)
- He staggered back; Wilfrid slashed his sword in defence of him. (10)
- The King of France has confided the defence of this place to me. (19)
- You have heard the managing clerk, another witness for the defence. (8)
- As soon as the charge against her was moderated, the defence expired. (10)
- But will you be so good as to account for it in your defence of them? (10)
- Even so little as an unspoken defence of him shook her to floods of tears. (10)
- Without shaking hands, they put themselves at once into postures of defence. (8)
- Her defence of Otto was in reality the vehement cherishing of her idea of me. (10)
- Besides, if I do, aunty will be at hand to plead for the defence, and she can! (10)
- Mrs. Chump fanned her cheek, in complete ignorance of the offence and defence. (10)
- Clementina did not defend herself, and Mrs. Lander presently came to her defence. (9)
- That ever-explosive name precipitated Beauchamp to the front rank of the defence. (10)
- Face to face as they sat, she had no defence for her scarlet cheeks; her eyes wavered. (10)
- But this bold defence was as far from the poor lady as any spoken reproach was from him. (9)
- He was marvellously transformed; he allowed no space for the arts of defence and evasion. (10)
- Yet he was annoyed to find the attack was so easily answerable when the defence unfolded. (10)
- Men call on her for their defence, as a favourable witness: she is a note of their rhetoric. (10)
- The defence set up is that he was not in a responsible condition when he committed the crime. (8)
- He looked profoundly ashamed of himself, ready as he was for an animated defence of his proceedings. (10)
- How could he word what he had come to say so that it might pierce the defence of her proud obstinacy? (8)
- A scout brought {201} Johnson the news, and immediately he despatched 1000 men to oppose his defence. (19)
- She always came to his defence when he accused himself; it was the best ground he could take with her. (9)
- March liked him for coming to the defence of a young writer whom he had not himself learned to like yet. (9)
- Baron Dieskau was sent with 3500 men, half of them Canadian farmers, to go to the defence of Crown Point. (19)
- Sometimes she felt the need almost of defence against her happiness, and a vague apprehension mixed with it. (9)
- To resume the defence of him: he was a man incapable of forming plots, because his head would not hold them. (10)
- The setting up of this defence of course enabled him to put in some evidence that might weigh in that direction. (8)
- She is angry with Captain Dartrey, for having recourse to violence in her defence: it is against her principles. (10)
- Five only succeeded in escaping to carry the tale of the defence, the butchery, and the martyrdom to Ville Marie. (19)
- They conversed of Teas; the black, the green, the mixtures; each thinking of the attack to come, and the defence. (10)
- Their forts and factories, though capable of offering a strong defence, were built of logs, with bastions of stone. (19)
- Spare to false womanliness her delicacy, Or bid true manliness give ear, we crave: In our defence thus chained are we. (10)
- When he saw the English ships approach, Vergor issued a proclamation to the Acadians round about to hasten to his defence. (19)
- They might have been their own dismal ghosts, they were so still, with no more need of defence from the cold than the dead have. (9)
- He fortified the heights for defence, but saw at a glance that it was the city for modern artillery to command, crush and enter. (10)
- That was gone now as if it had never been; and she had no defence, nothing between her and this crushing humiliation and chagrin. (8)
- After an heroic defence, Drucour was at last obliged to surrender, and all the garrison were sent to England as prisoners of war. (19)
- When he reached the office of Forsyte, Bustard and Forsyte, he found Soames, sitting in his revolving, chair, drawing up a defence. (8)
- Adela tried laughter as a defence from his suggestion against Wilfrid, but had shortly afterwards to fly from the fearful anatomist. (10)
- It was so pleasant when he came in at breakfast with his well-remembered smile, that she did not require from him any explicit defence. (9)
- His mother would look at him with such a patient sadness which yet had in it an instinctive pride, as if she were reserving her defence. (8)
- She thought well of Frank in almost every respect; and, what was more, she loved him very much, and her defence was, therefore, earnest. (4)
- Merthyr, who had expressed in her defence what could be said for her, was unwittingly cherishing what could be thought in her disfavour. (10)
- Bromfield Corey had not inherited it, and he had made his straight nose his defence when the old merchant accused him of a want of energy. (9)
- Skepsey fell upon his attitude for dialectical defence the modest form of the two hands at rolling play and the head deferentially sidecast. (10)
- Consequently, and as a defence against the darker dread, they now, for the first time, fully believed that monetary ruin had befallen their father. (10)
- The harassed gentleman of the name of Malkin, driven to extremity by the worrying, stood in braced preparation for the English attitude of defence. (10)
- The surprised people could make no defence, the town was burnt, fifty people slaughtered, almost without resistance, and a hundred more carried away prisoners. (19)
Also see sentences for: defenceless, defences, self-defence.
Definition of defence:
- defence, de-fens’, n. a defending: protection: vindication: (_law_) a defendant’s plea. | pa.p. defenc’ed (_b._), fortified. | adj. defence’less. | adv. defence’lessly. | n. defence’lessness. (0)
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