How to Use defy convention in a Sentence

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• The Bursteins ran their shop with a sense of derring-do, determination — and a willingness to defy convention.
  — Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 19 Feb. 2026
• Stark’s willingness to defy convention mattered.
  — Alessandro Meregaglia, The Conversation, 3 Mar. 2026
• Clothes that defy convention — of gender, of context, even of gravity — interpreting sculptural and oversized forms.
  — Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 29 Oct. 2025
• Set in Edinburgh in 1810, the drama follows two female teachers who defy convention and open a progressive all-girls’ school.
  — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 10 Feb. 2026
• After The Favourite, Poor Things (which won Stone her second Oscar) and now Bugonia, Stone has become Lanthimos’ muse for exploring female characters who defy convention.
  — Hannah Abraham, Forbes.com, 23 Jan. 2026