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Example sentences for: defeat

How can you use “defeat” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Montréal’s oldest monument was somewhat provocatively erected in 1809, just four years after the British admiral’s devastating defeat of the French at Trafalgar.
Here, it's defeat as self-aggrandizement.
For both of these reasons, victory over Jones, regarded as such, would actually be a defeat for Clinton.
Catalonia celebrates this defeat as its national holiday, a symbol of the spirit of nationalist resistance.
Noncompliance would mean U.S. "force directed at the Taliban itself " and U.S. efforts to ensure that the Taliban would never defeat the Northern Alliance.