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Example sentences for: spoils

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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.
The U.S. took possession of Puerto Rico in 1898 as part of its spoils from the Spanish-American War.
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.
Appalled by the rampant corruption of the spoils system, they instituted civil service reform and the "Australian" secret ballot.
According to the elaborate ethnic spoils system of those days, the North Side House seat belonged to the Germans.