This page shows Defense in 20 example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like defence or prosecution. Useful when writing or proofreading a text.
Defense in a sentence
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Defense meaning
- The action of defending or protecting from attack, danger, or injury.
- Anything employed to oppose attack(s).
- A strategy and tactics employed to prevent the other team from scoring; contrasted with offense.
Synonyms of Defense
Defense in Dutch
Example sentences (20)
They knew exactly what our defense wanted to do and they exposed the holes in the defense throughout the entire day.
And the defense isn’t capitalizing on its chances to create turnovers, exposing the rest of the issues on defense.
On Ukraine’s Territorial Defense Forces Day, I thank all the territorial defense warriors for their courage and strength!
The Defense Department tapped Doug Beck as the new director of the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) on Tuesday.
I think in the second half, we improved in that area, in terms of transitioning from defense to offense, offense to defense.
Additionally, member states need to increase their defense investments and strengthen the defense industry and armed forces.
The Bears have struggled on offense and defense, while the Broncos have mostly just struggled on defense.
Gantz, a former defense minister and Israel Defense Forces (IDF) chief of staff, is a prominent figure in Israel’s opposition.
I guess the implied defense, you didn't give the defense revenues, but I guess they look to be down 7%.
While Special Defense and Special Attack are Overqwil's worst stats, players don't want it to suffer a bane in Special Defense.
Nash was too short to be able to play defense well enough to make the NBA Finals, as he was targeted on defense in the playoffs.
I believe that cooperation between the Member states in such spheres as security, defense and defense industry must be ramped up.
This will be signed by the Department of National Defense (DND) and the Ministry of Defense of Japan.
All of the efforts on defense to contain the Mississinawa Valley defense led to some tired players.
Defense attorney Ana Faoro urged Okrent to take into account Baker’s self-defense claim, youthfulness and untreated mental illness.
So basically, even with no help from any type of offensive production, the Broncos defense mops the floor with the Vikings defense.
The texts described the defense attorney as "awesome" and asked "can I clap for her?" during the defense attorney's opening arguments.
Today's Defense Department contracts valued at $7.5 million or more are now live on Defense.gov.
Fire-type is its most common weakness, but with this family's high Defense and Sp. Defense, they can still take these attacks in stride.
Any day that your defense holds the Chiefs to under 3 ypc and keeps Travis Kelce under 50 yards of offense with 0 TDs is a win on defense.
Phrases with defense
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with defense
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the defense 63×
- of defense 39×
- defense and 30×
- defense minister 21×
- national defense 16×
- defense secretary 16×
- defense ministry 16×
- and defense 14×
- defense forces 13×
- on defense 12×
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About these examples
The 20 examples on this page contain the complete word defense. Duplicate, incomplete, unusually short and technically noisy sentences are removed automatically. The definition is sourced from Wiktionary. Read more about our sources and checks on the About Voorbeeldzinnen.info page or see how to report a correction.