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

Straws in the wind: It's been a bad month for Communists , with election defeats in Bulgaria, Lithuania, and Romania, on top of prior losses in Russia and the Czech Republic.
He asks whether the resisters were driven by genuine dislike of Hitler and his ideas, or whether they decided that Hitler was superfluous only after his string of victories turned into a string of defeats.
Talk about quick defeats: The first sign I see outside the MGM Grand ballroom all but declares that the National Gambling Impact Study Commission has already lost.
There is no irony of statement intended here, yet the sentence neatly defeats its purpose.
Just as index-fund investing defeats this purpose, so too does trading based on anything other than an evaluation of a company's underlying prospects for the future.