fly in the face of
Example Sentences
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Results on the road fly in the face of Everton's struggles at the Hill Dickinson this season, although Moyes' approach is simply better suited to playing away from home.
From BBC ● Mar. 12, 2026
That move “seemed to fly in the face of market forecasts” but hasn’t, as of yet, led to a “collapse” in oil prices, he said.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 28, 2025
Alexis Hoag-Fordjour, a Brooklyn Law School professor who specializes in capital punishment argued that, given the defendants' differing sentences, an outcome where Glossip is executed "would fly in the face" of justice.
From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2024
As for literally decades’ worth of decisions, both from the Supreme Court and lower federal courts, that fly in the face of his argument?
From Slate ● Nov. 21, 2023
She dared not fly in the face of her husband, and say it; and, it may be, that she was too willingly silent for her husband's sake.
From Trevlyn Hold by Mrs. Henry Wood
