Example sentences for: rout

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

  • The Pakistanis spun their pullback as a mutual cease-fire, but as "" notes, India bragged of "a total military rout."

  • The isolated starling fearsthe crows, the crows gang upto rout a hawk.

  • While Indian newspapers reported Monday that Pakistani-backed Muslim guerrillas have started pulling out of the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir--a development described by the Hindu as "a dramatic victory" for India and a "total military rout" for Pakistan--the Pakistani daily Dawn led Monday on planned protests by Islamic militants against the withdrawal.

  • The rout also had something to do with the fact that only a few Internet companies have ever reported profits and that even those that have profits trade at valuations to which, as they say, no traditional criteria can be applied.

  • In its editorial Sunday headlined "The rout of the Starr judges," Le Monde of Paris called Clinton's victory in the Senate impeachment trial "the first serious setback for the crusade led by the neo-conservatives since the beginning of the 1980s to dictate the morality and sexuality of Americans."


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