Example sentences for: waterloo

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

  • Five years later, the Taira were overthrown after being defeated in the straits between western Honshu and Kyushu, at the titanic sea battle of Dannoura — which has a place in Japanese annals comparable to Waterloo or Stalingrad.

  • Here's the scene at the typical Gore event of yesterday, a huge rally in Waterloo: A cheering, sign- and flag-waving throng of many hundreds fills the bleachers and floor of the basketball arena at Northern University of Iowa.

  • When all is said and done, you can take off to Waterloo, Farewell, or Worldsend.

  • In September, 1989, preceding what has come to be known as the Waterloo Conference on the OED (because its first four annual meetings were held at the University of Waterloo, Ontario), members of the European Association for Lexicography (EURALEX) held a symposium on dictionary reviewing.

  • The NYT front hints at a coming waterloo for Yugoslav dictator Slobodan Milosevic.


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