Examples of 'flies in the face' in a sentence

Meaning of "flies in the face"

flies in the face: to be directly opposed to or contradicted by something

How to use "flies in the face" in a sentence

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flies in the face
Flies in the face of every kind of sense.
This approach flies in the face of reality.
Flies in the face of history.
A design that flies in the face of convention.
Flies in the face of all.
This one thing flies in the face of.
This flies in the face of economic realities.
You do realize this flies in the face.
This flies in the face of puzzle etiquette.
Ashes of your relatives flies in the face.
It flies in the face of everything my father ever wanted.
And this treaty flies in the face of it.
It flies in the face of common sense.
So that kind of flies in the face of this.
It flies in the face of everything that we stand for.

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What you are doing flies in the face of everything.
It flies in the face of everything the marketers are saying to us.
Especially if what we want flies in the face of reality.
It flies in the face of federal law.
This draft resolution flies in the face of that statement.
It flies in the face of human value.
The whole mess still flies in the face of logic.
It flies in the face of reason.
Cindy goes on to say this flies in the face of gender stereotypes.
It flies in the face of the culture you have established.
Chief among these is that it flies in the face of constitutional rules.
This flies in the face of the efficient markets hypothesis.
This is still ongoing and flies in the face of common sense.
It flies in the face of sovereignty.
The command to love our enemy flies in the face of human nature.
Which flies in the face of everything.
The problem is that his claim of morality flies in the face of history.
Well it flies in the face of history.
And a woman on the English throne flies in the face of nature.
This case flies in the face of all tradition.
Need I mention every single bird that flies in the face of frontiers.
But this flies in the face of most evidence.
This is a Belgian government measure which flies in the face of the Schengen Treaty.
This flies in the face of that.
The very nature of being an entrepreneur flies in the face of all that conformity.
This flies in the face of social and political reality.
What is bewildering is that all this flies in the face of basic democratic principles.
It flies in the face of humanity.
The applicant explains that his invention flies in the face of the conventional wisdom.
This flies in the face of everything the disciples believe.
Such common sense flies in the face of ILSA.
It flies in the face of one.
PWGSC submitted that this assertion flies in the face of commercial realities.
This all flies in the face of the regime of corruption.
The procedure used by the government flies in the face of First Amendment law.

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Examples of using Flies
Catch some flies for him to eat
Flies into a rage for no reason at all
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