Example sentences for: victors

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

  • These have ranged from the triumphalist (such as Jay Winik's On the Brink , a hagiographic account of the Reagan-era officials he sees as the Cold War's victors) to the tendentious (say, Peter Schweizer's simplistic Victory , giving all the credit, again, to Reagan) to the thoughtful (such as We Now Know , by the dean of Cold War historians, John Lewis Gaddis).

  • While highlighting Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's three conditions for peace--an immediate end to the use of force; a withdrawal of Serb military, paramilitary, and police personnel from Kosovo; and their replacement by international peace enforcers--it said in an editorial that NATO can only leave Yugoslavia as "victors."

  • Before the end of the war in 401 b.c. , many islands had already transferred their allegiance to the victors, who were led by Philip II of Macedon.

  • The model for an international war-crimes tribunal is the Nuremberg trials , established by Allied victors in Germany to try the 24 highest-ranking Nazis . Their crimes included the "deliberate instigation of aggressive wars," the extermination of racial and religious groups, and the murder and mistreatment of prisoners of war.

  • "The main victors [in the east German state of Brandenburg] were the reformed communists in the Party of Democratic Socialism, with 23 per cent of the vote, and the extreme nationalist Deutsche Volksunion, which will sneak into the state parliament with 5.2 per cent."


How many words do you know? Try our free vocabulary size test!


Search

Search for example sentences

Loading Loading...
Quantcast