Sentences with defensively
de·fen·sive
D d - Defensive armament.
- Defensive treaty; a defensive attitude.
- Offensively he's … threatened to tear a few games apart, but defensively he's leading the competition in inside-50 tackles.
- Ballmer winced defensively as the first egg flew past him, hitting the whiteboard.
- The bank has put a large percentage of its assets in defensive rather than growth stocks.
- To be on the defensive about one's mistakes.
- To get through a test of that order it will need to be fit, organised, disciplined, defensively sound.