defeat

How To Use defeat In A Sentence

• Ministers are attempting to come up with a compromise to avoid defeat on Wednesday. Times, Sunday Times
• After several attempts to untie the knot, I admitted defeat and cut through it with a knife.
• He did not want a repeat performance of the humiliating defeat he had suffered.
• Their last nine league games have brought four wins, four defeats and a draw. The Sun
• Their pastorals, both published in 1651, offered choices to Royalists in the aftermath of the crushing defeat at Worcester.
• an atmosphere of defeat pervaded the candidate's headquarters
• A British fleet defeated the French at Trafalgar.
• For centuries, scholars have squabbled over the design of the ship, which was crucial to defeating the Persians in the Battle of Salamis in 480 B.C., part of a wider war that included the fight at Thermopylae dramatized in the film "300. Epic Struggle: Fans Fight to Revive an Oar-Powered Greek Warship
• Matters went on pretty well with us until my master was seized with a severe fit of illness, in consequence of which his literary scheme was completely defeated, and his condition in life materially injured; of course, the glad tones of encouragement which I had been accustomed to hear were changed into expressions of condolence, and sometimes assurances of unabated friendship; but then it must be remembered that I, the handsomest blue coat, was _still in good condition_, and it will perhaps appear, that if I were not my master's The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 262, July 7, 1827
• No one can degrade us except ourselves; that if we are worthy, no influence can defeat us.