Example sentences for: won

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

  • Britain won, on average, 17 gold medals per Olympics in the five official games held in its imperial heyday before World War I. That average has dropped to only five medals per Olympics in the 17 held since.

  • Companies that could pay their foreign debts when a dollar cost 900 won could not pay when a dollar cost 1,400 won.

  • The FBI reports that 98 percent of the 2,613 convictions for financial institution fraud won in 1998 were initiated or enhanced by suspicious activity reports.

  • Among the speakers will be historian Doris Kearns Goodwin and John Hume who, along with David Trimble, won the Nobel Peace Prize last year for his work in Northern Ireland.

  • The Republicans won: 1) a 0.38 percent across-the-board budget cut; 2) increased spending on defense and veterans' health; and 3) the ability to claim to have protected the Social Security surplus.


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