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Example sentences for: won

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

"Tuesday's presidential election was won back in January, when the economy, which seemed headed for zero or even negative growth, suddenly turned around," writes James K. Glassman, the conservative Washington Post columnist.
After all, at the time the Harvard economics department included A. Michael Spence, who had won the Clark Medal (the highest award of the American Economic Association) largely for his work on--you guessed it--increasing returns.
Adams won the presidency only because Henry Clay backed him in the run-off in the House of Representatives, but Adams never lived down (false) rumors that he and Clay had cut a "Corrupt Bargain."
In light of the decision by Sonny Bono's widow to run for his congressional seat, the LAT front page reports that among first-time House candidates from 1916 to 1993, 84 percent of the widows won, while only 14 percent of the other women did.
3) A Pakistani woman won a historic court victory allowing her to remain married to the man she loves (and with whom she eloped) despite her parents' insistence that under Islamic law, they have the sole authority to choose her husband.