Examples of 'had defected' in a sentence

Meaning of "had defected"

When someone has defected, it means that they have abandoned their allegiance or loyalty towards a particular group, organization, or country and joined or sided with the opposing group or organization

How to use "had defected" in a sentence

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had defected
He said that he had defected in order to prevent war.
We were not informed anyone had defected.
Kala had defected.
The blasts were followed by fierce clashes between government soldiers and soldiers that had defected.
Vietnamese had defected.
Soldiers who had defected had seized tonnes of weaponry and ammunition from military armouries.
My brothers had defected.
They had defected to Carthage when the two Scipios died.
The soldier later told investigators that he had defected after killing two of his superiors.
He had defected to the Republic of Korea.
Three of these were WWF wrestlers who had defected.
The voters who had defected to Clinton switched sides yet again.
The Russian ballet dancer had defected from.
Brooke had defected to Mary.
They must have known that a Russian spy had defected.

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A number of opposition MPs who had defected to the UPFA were rewarded with ministerial posts.
They would have to know that a Russian spy had defected.
Then they talked to a pilot who had defected from the Syrian air force.
The Communists said nothing preferring let the West believe he indeed had defected to them.
Not one single pilot had defected to South Korea.
Upon her arrival she called a press conference and announced that she had defected from Cuba.
The source said Hijab had defected to Jordan before his sacking.
After a year and a half of war, most of the rebellious barons had defected.
Joseph Stalin mistakenly believed he had defected to Nazi Germany and disbanded his army.
If she had defected a week earlier… the data would have been easier to swap.
Bill Clinton courted neocons who had defected to Reagan.
She thought he had defected to the enemy, started calling him a traitor.
They must have known a Russian spy had defected to Sweden.
Then John Vatatzes, who had defected to Kantakouzenos the year before, once more switched sides.
The PM's spokesman confirmed he was safe in Jordan and had defected.
When he had contacted me, he had defected only the day before.
Ridge had defected to Spectra and challenged Forrester to a fashion showdown in Portofino, Italy.
Rebels claimed that a group of pilots had defected and assassinated the base 's commanding officer.
A press conference was arranged at a Tokyo hotel on 13 July, a month after Lyushkov had defected.
The Portuguese-African troops who had defected to Guinea received life sentences at hard labor.
Ba had defected from China in 1978 and was forbidden from re-entering the country.
He decided to hunt down Taun We, who had defected more recently.
Activists and soldiers that had defected from Assad 's military formed the Free Syrian Army.
Nikolai ' Kolya ' Rodchenko ( Baryshnikov ) is a Soviet ballet dancer who had defected from the Soviet Union.
He also stated that 30 soldiers had defected during the fighting, and had defected with 2 tanks.
Opposing them were the 119th Brigade, which had defected to the opposition.
Others, however, had defected to the rebels.
In October 2011, clashes between government and army units which had defected were being regularly reported.
Two groups from the SS division had defected to the FFI on 27 August.
Meanwhile, the Ottoman fleet had defected to Mohamed Ali.
On 5 November, it was reported that a Councillor had defected from UKIP to the Conservatives.
All of Australia 's first-choice players had defected apart from Jeff Thomson.
In 2016, South Korea announced that 13 restaurant workers had defected from a Pyongyang restaurant chain abroad.
In 845 Pepin welcomed Seguin of Bordeaux who had defected from the Emperor 's side.

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