DEFENSE in a Sentence

Learn DEFENSE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
151 example sentences for DEFENSE, such as:
1. Without defense, she was thrown into it.
2. In his defense he alleged temporary insanity.
3. Leagues are commonly made for mutual defense.
4. The attorney for the defense challenged the juror.
5. The defense attorney phrased his summation at last.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of DEFENSE
defense
 n.  an organization of defenders that provides resistance against attack
 n.  (sports) the team that is trying to prevent the other team from scoring
Classic Sentence: (49 in 4 pages)
1  She could think of no defense for this last, for she knew Gerald was right.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
2  Melly rallied to the defense, though white and frightened at the prospect of facing the fire-eating Mr. O'Hara.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
3  Said they were needed for the defense of their state.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
4  Oh, it's so obvious from the way you rush to his defense.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
5  By morning she would have thought up some excuse to offer, some defense that might hold water.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIII
6  The additional burden of her guilt with Ashley and Melanie's defense was more than she could bear.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LV
7  It was characteristic of the regard in which Scarlett was held that few people based their defense or their criticism of her on her personal integrity.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LV
8  But now that she had spoken, many rushed to her defense and took her side against Scarlett, even as others, loving Melanie, stood by her and Scarlett.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LV
9  The log stockade which Mrs. Champ Perry was to find when she trekked in was built afterward by the soldiers as a defense against the Sioux.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
10  She began to call him "Ray," and to bounce in defense of his unselfishness and thoughtfulness every time Juanita Haydock or Rita Gould giggled about him at the Jolly Seventeen.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
11  Without defense, she was thrown into it.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
12  They will serve at the same time as a defense for the Afro-Americans Sampsons who suffer themselves to be betrayed by white Delilahs.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In II
13  As he was destitute of any other means of defense, his safety now depended entirely on bodily strength and resolution.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 7
14  It possessed no other apparent advantage for a resting place, than in its elevation and form, which might render defense easy, and surprise nearly impossible.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11
15  Neither party had firearms, and the contest was to be decided in the deadliest manner, hand to hand, with weapons of offense, and none of defense.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 12
Example Sentence: (102 in 7 pages)
1  The attorney for the defense challenged the evidence as hearsay.
2  The defense attorney argued that the judge should declare a mistrial.
3  The defense attorney phrased his summation at last.
4  The attorney quickly turned his main defense argument on its head.
5  The attorney for the defense challenged the juror.
6  Looking relaxed and rested, Simpson answered friendly questions from his defense attorney for nearly three hours.
7  Goldston told jailers he was doing so because he wanted cigarettes, magazines and Los Angeles defense attorney Johnnie Cochran.
8  Morgan is a well-known defense attorney.
9  Finally, the weight of scientific evidence, wielded by an implacable defense attorney, got Miller released and another man indicted.
10  Most criminal cases are therefore settled without trial by the process of plea bargaining between the prosecutor and the defense attorney.
11  The defense wants the district Judge to throw out the case.
12  The lawyer produced a clever defense of his client.
13  In his defense he alleged temporary insanity.
14  Leagues are commonly made for mutual defense.
15  The secretary of defense briefed the president on the enemy's strength.