Example sentences for: spoils

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

  • From its rich nappa leather and pigskin lining to its supple comfort, the Prestige tennis shoe spoils your feet.

  • 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.

  • Appalled by the rampant corruption of the spoils system, they instituted civil service reform and the "Australian" secret ballot.

  • Even the mighty Charlemagne, king of the Franks from 768 to 814, did not manage to create an enduring national unity; his sons fought for the spoils of his empire.


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