defense mechanism in a sentence

Examples

1. Humor is one of our best defense mechanisms against what Americans call culture shock.
2. The big egos are a defense mechanism against those rejections.
3. It sequesters metabolites from its prey as a defense mechanism.
4. Very often the Porter songs are used as defense mechanisms.
5. But you have to have a built-in defense mechanism.
6. Funny is the fat person's defense mechanism, she says.
7. "That's my defense mechanism against pompous and ludicrous questions,"
8. "It is part of the body's defense mechanism ."
9. They deploy " defense mechanisms " to achieve this.
10. And how does this defense mechanism ultimately fail them?