Example sentences for: defeat

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

  • A commitment, finally, to defeat.

  • Wherever you place Bill Clinton on the ideological spectrum, his defeat of Bob Dole cannot rationally be interpreted as a victory for conservatism.

  • In a runoff, Barak would defeat Netanyahu by 47 percent to 43 percent, with 10 percent undecided.

  • The WP 's account of Clinton's letter to Lott makes it seem that the fate of the treaty is genuinely up in the air, whereas the LAT 's first paragraph suggests a deal may be in the works that will avoid the treaty's certain defeat.

  • From 1919 to 1922 he waged war with the Greeks, who had invaded at Smyrna, and ultimately managed to defeat them and force their withdrawal from Asia Minor.


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