Example sentences for: victory

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

  • The better strategy would be to cede it altogether, leaving blacks to enjoy their Pyrric victory.

  • Both Susan Page ( LE ) and Bob Schieffer ( FTN ) predict a sweeping Gore victory in Iowa.

  • In the 1946 municipal elections — Berlin’s first free vote since 1933, and its last until 1990 — the Social Democrats won a crushing victory over the Communists, prompting the Soviets to tighten their grip on the eastern sector.

  • But the extravagant parties and carefree spending stopped abruptly with the North’s victory in 1865.

  • On a day when Italy is involved in a major international football match, streets all over the country are deserted — until the cars come out honking for a frenetic victory parade or the men shuffle on foot to the Piazza del Duomo for a funereal post-defeat commiseration and recrimination.


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