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Defeat
"Defeat" in a Sentence (23 examples)
The manager threw in the towel in defeat and planned how to win the next game.
The Giants were well on the way to defeat.
The lawsuit is likely to end in our defeat.
Actually, we had prepared ourselves for defeat.
The chances of victory or defeat are even.
The general had 20/20 hindsight about the defeat, but no foresight at all.
Tanks and planes may defeat the troops but they cannot conquer the people.
The two parties allied to defeat the bill.
The defeat didn't dampen his spirits.
Rumors of defeat were abroad.
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Wellington defeated Napoleon at Waterloo.
The Japanese defeated the Ming general Tsu Chʻeng-hsün 祖承訓 at Pʻing jang 平壤 in 1592, the first year of Bunroku 文祿 of Japan, and the fighting continued for some years; but at Hideyoshi's death the Japanese troops left Korea.
My personal success or failure is insignificant; the rise or fall of the nation is my responsibility and must not be shirked. Upon introspection, I feel I am firmer than ever in confidence that the Communists will be defeated. These are feelings which will comfort Father's soul in Heaven.
He finds himself naturally to dread a superior Being that can defeat all his designs, and disappoint all his hopes.
In one instance he defeated his own purpose.
The escheators […] defeated the right heir of his succession.
The last active L.Y.R. 0-6-0ST (apart from works shunters), No. 51408, has been moved from Bolton to Agecroft for use in New Bailey Yard, Salford, where a sharp 1 in 27 curve is said to have defeated all attempts so far to employ diesel shunters; an ex-L.Y.R. 0-4-0ST also works here.
Licking their wounds after a temporary defeat, they planned their next move.
Two defeats in five games coming into this contest, and a draw with Everton, ultimately cost Sir Alex Ferguson's side in what became the most extraordinary finale to the league championship since Arsenal beat Liverpool at Anfield in 1989.
The inscription records her defeat of the country's enemies in a costly war.
... is subsequently issued to him, in accordance with his perfect equity thus acquired, by a legal fiction which the law creates for the protection, but not for the defeat, of his title.
She could see no justice in being forced into a position that promised to end in further humiliation and defeat of her hopes.
and made defeat of her virginity
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