Example sentences for: spoils

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

  • Thus, they may have opted for full, public disclosure because they knew that that was the only way to ensure that they shared equally in the spoils.

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

  • It spoils the sport.

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

  • The United States was eager to get in on the act and so, during the war with Mexico over the annexation of Texas, California was suddenly regarded as a useful addition to the spoils.


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