Example sentences for: victorious

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

  • When it was victorious at the ballot box, among the new government’s first tasks was to organize a referendum on Scottish devolution.

  • It is the system of writing that the victorious Japanese wanted to impose on the defeated Australians, New Zealanders, and Americans at the end of World War II, forcing them to abandon Latin letters and use Chinese logographs as phonetic equivalents of English words instead.

  • Happily, the memory of the hurricane is starting to fade--though it was rekindled in March when President Clinton came through Central America, scattering relief programs in his wake like victorious GIs tossing chocolate bars to school kids in 1945.

  • A funny set of dispatches chronicles Election Night at, among other places, the DNC victory party (hastily assembled when it became clear there was something to celebrate), the RNC "victory" party (still termed so despite being less than victorious), the AFL-CIO headquarters (where they wouldn't watch ABC news because of a labor dispute), and a bar in Marietta, Ga. filled with glum conservatives.

  • But when the Seminoles, victorious in 1979, sued Florida after being denied compact negotiations in 1996, they lost.


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