Example sentences for: victors

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

  • 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.

  • 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).

  • The town was divided among the victors, principally the orders of Santiago and Calatrava.

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

  • 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."


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