Sentence examples for defeat from high-quality English sources.

• This is becoming an enormous strategic defeat.

• We share a common goal, and together we’ll defeat Donald Trump.

• This election hinted at the defeat of a certain kind of magical thinking.

• The defeat resulted in the loss of Lombardy, and the Bach government had to resign.

• Think Croatia in the 2018 World Cup semi-final defeat in Moscow.

• But defeat devices – also known as “delete devices” – are popular with many vehicle owners.

• On top of military defeat came the fall of the monarchy and the founding of the German republic.

• It provides maneuver Brigade Combat Teams with a full "detect-identify-track-defeat" capability.

Use defeat in a sentence.

• “NEVER confuse a single defeat with a final defeat,” wrote Scott Fitzgerald, the novelist.

• He campaigned as a born-again democrat, vowing to root out corruption, revive the economy and defeat the Islamist Boko Haram insurgency.

• Southampton: A season that featured a 9-0 defeat… where that 9-0 defeat will, remarkably, be remembered for the right reasons.

• Biden successfully appealed to black voters by tapping into their strong desire to defeat Trump, positioning himself as the most likely to defeat the president in a general election.

• Biden successfully appealed to black voters by tapping into voters' strong desire to defeat Trump, positioning himself as the most likely to defeat the president in a general election.

• And the new government will have to tackle it: the separatists plan yet another referendum, to redress their hair's-breadth defeat in 1995—a defeat for which Mr Chrétien could claim precious little credit.

• The union with Scotland (1707) had created strains; and Jacobitism remained a threat after the defeat of James Edward Stuart’s rising of 1715—until the defeat of his son Charles Edward at Culloden in 1746, it was a focus for the discontented.

• At the back of my mind is some ideal—and perhaps concocted—vision of Japan, in which one refrains from inflicting defeat on an opponent because there is something shameful in defeat and therefore something shameful in imposing defeat.

defeat sentence examples

• They were comprehensively outplayed on Saturday in their 3-0 defeat at Manchester City, a fourth reverse in five Premier League games, which left them ninth, and they exited the FA Cup the previous Wednesday after the 5-4 extra-time defeat at Everton.

• Having endured a shock 2-1 defeat against Brighton a week ago, a first defeat of the season which would dent the air of invincibility around Emma Hayes’s side, Chelsea’s 3-0 win over Arsenal and the light work made of Bristol have helped restore their swagger.

• Brought in as a direct replacement for club legend Vincent Kompany, who left Etihad Stadium following City's last title triumph, Dias has quickly helped transform his side's defensive fortunes - a 2-0 defeat by Tottenham the only defeat in his young City career.

• To increase United's pain, this was their first home defeat in any competition since April 2010, when they lost to Chelsea - but even that defeat, which effectively cost them the title, may not turn out to have the same long-term significance as this heavy beating.