Example sentences for: spoils

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

  • This sort of carelessness spoils Piñones (and many other beauty spots on the eastern coastline within easy reach of San Juan); an assemblage of broken bottles, leftover food, litter, and worse is something you can’t fail to notice.

  • The fighting brought none of the usual spoils of war that provincial warlords and samurai had come to expect as payment.

  • The point is worth making, even though such awful spoils of war hardly address the moral argument of good and evil in the Cold War itself.

  • Trophies of war--from helmets, bayonets, and other innocuous spoils to the grisly byproducts of dismemberment--have a long, if not proud, history.

  • The Post spoils the effect somewhat: by calling its project immodestly "The Washington Post Century," and running only excerpts of the original front-page stories.


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