Example sentences for: victors

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

  • The victors began looting, and hunting down the new leader's political rivals, two of whom have already been executed.

  • 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 South China Morning Post of Hong Kong used the headline "Clinton joy over historic election gain," while the Straits Times of Singapore described the Democrats as the "victors."

  • Cinderella victors shook up the NCAA men's basketball tournament . In the West, 10 th -seeded Gonzaga, which has already taken out seventh-seeded Minnesota and second-seeded Stanford, has a good chance of becoming the third double-digit seed ever to reach the quarterfinals.

  • (It was Van Buren's ally William L. Marcy who famously said, "To the victors belong the spoils," making the "spoils system" of rewarding supporters a fixture of party politics.)


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