Example sentences for: defeating

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

  • They moved, stored, and spent their money in ordinary ways, easily defeating the detection mechanisms in place at the time.

  • "At a time when Americans are growing increasingly cynical about public service and increasingly disillusioned about their political leaders," McCain charged Saturday, "I was disappointed to see my fellow Republicans' reaction to recent comments and writings by Pat Buchanan concerning our nation's role in defeating Nazi Germany.

  • We may lose the best hope we have of defeating the terrible diseases that now plague us.

  • Now that certain (very literate) people have taken hold of Esperanto and published novels and poetry in it, its chief function as a means of basic communication has been violated, and with the onset of its sophistication it has become more complex, thus defeating its original purpose.

  • Having defined the conflict this way, Palestinian officials suggested that Israel's best means of defeating terrorism was to cooperate with the Palestinian Authority.


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