Sentence examples for won from high-quality English sources.

• Trump won in November.

• The U.S. team won 15 of the 24 men’s events.

• They won their first World Cup penalty shoot-out.

• Not even "Roma" could do it, and that won three Oscars.

• The team has won 14 out of 20 races.

• (Mitt Romney narrowly won it in 2012.)

• (Mitt Romney narrowly won it in 2012.)

• American diver Pat McCormick won two gold medals.

Use won in a sentence.

• In 2000 she won the Booker Prize for The Blind Assassin.

• In the same period he also won eight indoor championships.

• The Briton has won eight races this season, the Finn only two.

• The incentive will increase to 500,000 won every month from 2025.

• The first time I won something — really won something — was my sophomore year of high school.

• Winans won a gold medal in shooting in London in 1908, then won a silver in Stockholm in 1912.

• Taron Egerton won a Golden Globe for his portrayal of Elton John in "Rocketman" and Awkwafina won a trophy for her role in "The Farewell."

• Whatever the committee’s officials do, it must be important, since each governor makes a tidy 138m won ($120,000) a year, plus 20m won to cover unspecified expenses.

won sentence examples

• In Dumfries and Galloway – a constituency in the heart of the Scottish Tories’ borders stronghold which was won by 11 per cent two years ago – Sturgeon’s party won decisively.

• In 2016, President Trump won the area by 11 points and last year, Representative Denver Riggleman, a Republican, won by nearly seven points even as other areas of the state flipped blue.

• Hidalgo County, for instance, on the Mexican border, is over 90% Latino; Mr Trump won 90,000 votes there, up from 49,000 in 2016, while Mr Biden won 127,000, just 8,000 more than Mrs Clinton won four years ago.

• Both critics and audiences embraced this powerful cautionary tale, which won the Academy Award as best picture, while Milland won for best actor, Wilder won as best director, and Wilder and Brackett won for their screenplay.