Example sentences for: defeated

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

  • He had dined the week before with defeated Democratic presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson.

  • He was soundly defeated by Labor Party leader Ehud Barak after other candidates quit so that their supporters could unite behind Barak against Netanyahu.

  • The Romans named the southwestern province of the peninsula Lusitania, oddly enough for one of the Celtiberian tribes they defeated, and by the third century a.d. had introduced Christianity.

  • The united countries defeated the Teutonic Knights at the Battle of Grunwald in 1410 and repelled Germanic eastward expansion.

  • How could I ever again face my colleagues and my students if I were to be defeated by a mere stripling?


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