Defeat used in a sentence, 14 examples

Defeat in a sentence as a noun

The goal here is not blackout per se but to defeat these bills.

There was a ton of pressure on me to make it work or admit defeat and revert.

You can't defeat consumer success with patent attacks.

The Diaboli main fleet has been defeated, at almost no casualties to Earth.

If a particular method or tactic enabled us to defeat the enemy, then it should be used.

I think Obama symbolically tried, then threw his hands up in the air in defeat when he got some resistance from Congress.

The principle was not so important that the strategy should be used even when it was self- \ndefeating, as Gandhi himself believed.

Defeat in a sentence as a verb

If copyright should be used to defeat that sort of project, then it undercuts the very rationale upon which it exists in the first place.

No doubt Altmayer believes, Stock says, that humanity would unite in indignation and defeat the Diaboli, but Stock knows better.

In the case of MySpace's crushing defeat by Facebook, the difference really was in the details, not in the overall ambitions of the two companies.

They're outraged by the betrayal of the police, making an end-run around the law that they thoroughly defeated to prevent the police from having master keys.

This was an impromptu patch applied by the bitcoin project and a number of markets to defeat some sort of bug, but I can't recall or can't seem to find the details at the moment and can't recall what it was fixing or if the 100 number is correct.

I think now the United States is much more interested in information openness as a means to make sure that countries all around the world trade peacefully rather than waging war one one another, and I think that is the only long-term way to defeat terrorist networks.

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

Defeat definitions

noun

an unsuccessful ending to a struggle or contest; "it was a narrow defeat"; "the army's only defeat"; "they suffered a convincing licking"

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Defeat used in a sentence

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