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How to use defeats in a sentence

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Four straight defeats, coupled with Queen of the South's defeat against Forfar in midweek, sent them back to whence they came.
In defeats, small or big, much is learned but walkovers are soul-destroying.
I would rather be defeated then shrink from the great issues, because from such defeats we rise again with twice as much strength.
In this story, Mordecai defeats his adversary Haman, with Esther's advice and help.
The team was coming from two defeats out of three previous games and needed morale boosting in front of the second leg tonight.
Liverpool fans must distinguish between clusters of defeats and real decline in class.
It completely defeats the reason a person would choose an e-sport over a real sport.
The knowledge of a shared destiny energizes and sustains many of us, enervates and defeats others.
Those players left disillusioned by summer after summer of defeats were given a reason to give it one more shot.
In his two defeats, both by knockout, he lost concentration and showed that, like many big punchers, he can be rendered unconscious too easily.
On Good Friday, mid-table Cheltenham came to town hoping to improve on a run of five defeats in their last six games.
Eventually, right and might defeats spite and the psycho surgeon and his glamazon are running away.
The two election defeats were put down to an inability to convince the electorate that they could be trusted with the nation's finances.
They lived the illusion of victory in every one of their lost battles, and to this day we refuse to admit our defeats.
Election defeats are being interpreted by some as a referendum on the presidency.
But despite this fact the party has been uprooted from the political arena with defeats in both the elections.
The 27-year-old Ghanian has three defeats and a draw on his record from 18 fights.
The hero triumphs, finds himself a good woman, and defeats the forces of darkness.
The film captures these accumulating defeats tenderly and forgivingly, and makes each moment feel authentic and real.
We also ordered oversized fondant potatoes which defeats the purpose entirely.
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Examples from Classical Literature
He was everywhere defeated, or his victories were Cadmean, as disastrous as defeats.
Not even the death of the dauber in a wretched accident defeats our sense of divine and ultimate victory.
This condition is known as the defeasance because it defeats or undoes the bond.
And this constipation reacts more or less on the peristaltic action of the bowels and in time defeats the function of peristalsis.
Our defeats we claimed as victories, inasmuch as we forced our opponents to bring out all their friends to outvote us.
Lauriston defeats Army of Silesia at Goldberg with heavy loss.
There is a profound monotonousness about its facts that baffles and defeats one's sincerest efforts to make them sparkle and enthuse.
Like many other leaders, stalky did not dwell on past defeats.
A man of defeats and of incapacity to be thus worshipped as a hero!
They are the product of malignity so evident that it defeats itself.
But I travel to learn, and I still remember that they picture no French defeats in the battle-galleries of Versailles.
Keeping them ignorant, of course, defeats its own object, and when they begin to understand they take it all much too seriously.
You are master, you are king, all-powerful master and king, for chance sometimes defeats the work of time and God.
Two of his three other defeats came from disqualifications to former heavyweight champion Riddick Bowe.
Volagases, with a Parthian army, invades Syria and defeats the Romans.
If Miami defeats Bowling Green, the RedHawks conceivably could move ahead of the Trojans in those power rankings and drop USC to the fourth spot.
We learn this from the memoirs of a man who was concerned in some few of these defeats and in many of these victories.
We proved not only that Iron Curtain defeats threats and saves lives, but the risk from collateral damage is minimal, especially when compared with the alternative.
Linking self-assessment to grading defeats these intentions.
He wanted to rid himself forever of Tarzan, and at the same time reap an ample revenge for the humiliations and defeats that he had suffered at his hands.
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