"defy" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- In 1871, UVM defied custom and admitted two women as students.
- "I would like you to know that, had it been possible to defy custom, I would never have insisted on these months of lessons of you."
- Since coming to Komarr, she'd been so close to defying custom, law, and her lord-and-husband's orders, and unilaterally taking his son and heir for treatment.
- 'Artai cannot defy custom - if you ask mercy for Sidacai, he must grant it.'
- Defy custom and it will crush you.
- Milady will be present; even Sir Revenat wouldn't dare defy custom so far as to deny her; and you shall be there, too!
- The Cornell victory continued a pattern in the ECAC playoffs that defied custom.
- Which, he said, was why the children's own mother Liesel, after two self-fertilization misfires of her own, had defied Hulzein custom.
- Now among Pyanfar's other troubles, she had defied hani custom.
- Bradley's willingness to defy custom in a town where procedural and social rules are as firm as they are Byzantine inspires much of the admiration for the man.
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