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Example sentences for: spoils
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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.