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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:

Defeat shattered the Second Empire.
The WP calls the appeals court pass a "resounding defeat" for the Clinton administration.
Attacks were stepped up after the German defeat at Stalingrad in 1943, with Anglo-American “carpet-bombing.”
Two years of savage civil war ended in late 1949 with Communist defeat, but political instability persisted.
"This terrible defeat, more so for all of us than for the image of America, was exactly what was feared might happen in those days of 1998 when Clinton was forced to admit in public to his own pathetic errors as a man and to his own unforgivable lies as a president, and therefore had to undergo the indignity of a public trial over the Monica affair.