Their arrival had been observed by the natives, who, with tom-toms beating and horns sounding, were drawn up in large numbers on the side of the hill to defend their village.
Some twenty savage-looking fellows, some armed with two-handed swords, others with muskets and assegais, stood ready to defend their vessel.
But there were several vices in the Anglo-Saxon constitution, which rendered it difficult for the English to defend their liberties in so critical an emergency.
When he appeared before Agen he “wondered that the people should be so damnably timorous and did not better defend their religion.
The wives and daughters of the peasantry were compelled to defend their honor.
If slaves are to be imported, shall not the exports produced by their labor supply a revenue the better to enable the General Government to defend their masters?
Our program of military assistance extends to the nations in the Near East and the Far East which are trying to defend their freedom.
They will give many people a real stake in the future and reason to defend their freedom.
Thereupon the angry Scotch Presbyterians signed a great Covenant, swearing to defend their religion (1638); they deposed the bishops set over them by the king and rose in revolt.
They had no navy and very few fortifications todefend their coastline.
This is why the cities of France, to defend their franchises, formed no league, as they did in other countries; for they found a natural defence in royal power.
Its traditional loyalty of Virginians, and their aversion to revolutions; but resolved to defend their rights.
For the theologians of Wittenberg and Leipzig did not only identify themselves with the Leipzig Interim while the threatening clouds of persecution were hovering over them, but also afterwards continued todefend their action.
After conferring with them, and confirming Butler in his office, they were despatched back in all haste todefend their country.
At Derry, Dublin, Carlow, and Cork, the challenged agreed to defend their doctrines.
Neither is it an act of judgment, for people to defend their own: defence is no act of jurisdiction, but a privilege of nature.
The people have as great interest to defend their religion as the peers, and more, because they have more souls to care for than they, who are fewer.
Assistance came too late; the tumult had aroused those within, and, snatching up their weapons, they hastened out to defend their master; they beheld him fallen and bleeding beside the threshold.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "defend their" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
