1. "Oh, I know, I know," said Kate, defensively.

2. Drive defensively and have comprehensive insurance.

3. Mexico did not play defensively.

4. The feeling of inferiority is defensively turned into a feeling of superiority.

5. Charlton coped easily defensively, knowing that Boro lacked the pace to hurt them.

6. He poised himself, blade weaving defensively before him, ready to take instant evasive action.

7. He responded defensively, becoming eventually what his enemies had called him all along: a dictator.

8. The Office hints defensively at a period of nomadic existence which was censured by critics as unstable.

9. I have learned to drive defensively.

10. AB : I think it's helped a lot defensively.

11. But Inter often play defensively.

12. Three months later, while defensively moving furniture,[ ] she had a seizure.

13. They were also much better defensively after allowing a 68 point first half in Game 2.

14. Not solely a scoring machine, Michael dominates defensively as well.

15. A. needed against an offensively effective if defensively weak Knicks team.

16. An informal survey of current major league rosters reveals nearly 50 athletes who once viewed themselves somewhat different defensively.

17. Use the systems best suited to their talent, both offensively and defensively.

18. But if you have too much respect for an opponent, you will play defensively.

19. Look at what happened in the management meeting this morning when you behaved so defensively about budgets.

20. I turned up my coat collar to meet my hat brim and hunched defensively, like a bedraggled bird.

21. Hysen, Thern, Ekstrom and Magnusson give the side a strong backbone, but they are suspect defensively on the flanks.

22. She now had a collapsible white metal stick she used quite defensively when out walking.

23. She whirled to face him, braced for further interrogation, her arms wrapped defensively across her waist.

24. Karune: Yup, Force Field is great on the Disruptor because it can be used both offensively and defensively.

25. Ideally, the user manager will realise his team is below par early enough in the half to switch to a more defensively sound formation and thus minimise any damage.

26. I think you've got to force Yao Ming out on the perimeter defensively.

27. His specialty is probably defense. He'an all - around player , but defensively, with the athleticism -- he's tough.

28. Debrecen were an unknown quantity and they played very defensively, which is their right.

29. He dropped into a defensive crouch, the knife held defensively before him.

30. Damn, Mac is torturing Cat not only offensively but shutting him down defensively.

31. I suppose that, in a sense, he is hyper - sincere -- defensively sincere.

32. Nash has never been great defensively, and he has gotten worse lately.

33. Defensively, no one's going to argue that The Kid's Pterodactyl wingspan isn't as good as it gets—but Jefferson is learning, getting better, and becoming tougher.

34. Lone stars will not dominate the match as much ( especially defensively ).

35. The problem is that companies file patents defensively,[] to stymie competition.

36. We want to get better little by little and today we took a step backward defensively.

37. I felt it better you should know, said Sir Cedric defensively.

38. By instinct the youth raised his staff defensively, exposing the ball of paper streamers.

39. How much will they lose defensively without Van Gundy prodding them?

40. "On Thursday nights, " I said defensively, "my wife and I play cribbage. On Sundays she reads to me the weekly letter from her mother.

41. Never assume a type supports an interface. Defensively query for that interface.