"defy" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The source material may defy identification.
- The hard sausage had no flavor and defied identification.
- Even as he said it, Greg knew the boy would defy identification, just like the chauffeur.
- The hautboy player has similarly defied identification.
- His own work defies identification as one style and ranges expressionism through traditional realism.
- The vehicle wobbled closer, still engulfed in the cloud of dust, defying identification.
- This thought-pulse, while defying identification or explanation, led all who had experienced it to the same conclusions.
- Only in storms might this species be pushed into headlands, but even then an out of range bird would probably defy definite identification.
- Her cooking defies identification in terms of classical or trendy cuisines.
- In the ruins the remains of several persons were dis-covered, most of the bodies in states that defied easy identification.
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