1.   The arrogant effrontery of the man defied belief.

2.   At times, they have defied belief.

3.   All around there was the hum of real estate, of sparkling restorations and unctuous brokers, and prices that defied belief.

4.   But then again, Boone is playing for the Seattle Mariners, a team making a habit of defying belief.

5.   It defies belief.

6.   Monthly changes large enough to be statistically meaningful, Katharine G. Abraham, the commissioner of labor statistics, said ruefully, tend also to defy belief.

7.   She exercises it with an awesome vigor that often defies belief and often loses.

8.   She defied belief herself by the way she handled the conditions.

9.   Some of what these men fomented looks so foolish as to defy belief.

10.   Some of the men had necks like fire hydrants and backs like anvils, yet they moved with a speed and grace that defied belief.