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Sentences ending with defeat

To marry him was an acknowledgment of defeat. [9]
That'd be a triumph, not a defeat. [11]
Still Philip's conscience told him that it was his plain duty to carry the matter into the courts, even with the certainty of defeat. [5]
She paused on the landing, her sense of relief overborne by a greater sense of defeat. [9]
The fate of the great god of the heathen was sealed, but in the wide precincts of the Serapeum no one thought of surrender or of prompt defeat. [10]
Could Rameses have sustained a defeat? [10]
His life has suffered defeat. [5]
Well, I was smarting under a sense of defeat. [5]
This was a severe defeat. [5]
You know the result perfectly well, because you know that when you have once opened the door to a canvasser, the trouble is done and you have got to suffer defeat. [5]

Short sentences using defeat

Doesn't that defeat it? [5]
I will defeat Carnac. [11]
I confess defeat. [5]

Sentences containing defeat two or more times

An army has suffered defeat, and at once a people loses its rights in proportion to the severity of the reverse, and if its army suffers a complete defeat the nation is quite subjugated. [2]
The old state of things was defeat, defeat, defeat--and by consequence we had troops with no dash, no heart, no hope. [5]

More example sentences with the word defeat in them

He has saved your administration and the island from defeat and horrible loss. [11]
And do not you believe that his name thus compulsorily placed at the head of the Independent column would work absolutely certain defeat to Blain and save the country's honor? [5]
It was only yesterday that he had tried to moderate Olympius' sanguine dreams, and had said to him: "It is not by enthusiasm but by tactics that we defeat a foe! [10]
But if you would like to defeat Buchanan and his gang, allow me a word with you: Does any one pretend that Fillmore can carry the vote of this State? [7]
Either way it would be the victory and defeat following war. [7]
Observe how we will turn this seeming disaster into an advertisement; an advertisement for our soap; and the biggest one, to draw, that was ever thought of; an advertisement that will transform that Mount Washington defeat into a Matterhorn victory. [5]
I hope he will defeat you. [11]
The bold general who had gained so many victories, and whom the defeat of Actium had only humbled, was said to have regained his former elasticity. [10]
The gazettes from which the old prince first heard of the defeat at Austerlitz stated, as usual very briefly and vaguely, that after brilliant engagements the Russians had had to retreat and had made their withdrawal in perfect order. [2]
Undeserved defeat, but what of that? [5]
The forces that were gathered by Peter Stuyvesant for the expedition to avenge upon the Swedes the defeat at Fort Casimir, and their appearance on the march, give some notion of the military prowess of the Dutch. [4]
You defeat the very work you want to do. [4]
Experience had taught us some valuable things; among others, how to take care of ourselves, how to avoid and defeat sharks and sharpers, and how to conduct our own business for our own profit and without other people's help. [5]
She was too tremendous a force to be left to herself; she would surely defeat all his plans. [5]
They flocked to Toul to see and enjoy this fright and embarrassment and defeat, and they had their trouble for their pains. [5]
One of these told him that at the Grier big-mill was one man working to defeat him by personal attacks. [11]
The issues seem to vary, but it is always a right against a claim, and, however the struggle of the hour may go, a movement onward of the campaign, which uses defeat as well as victory to serve its mighty ends. [6]
Was it reasonable to suppose that society should notice that one woman's heart was full of foreboding, heavy with a sense of loss and defeat, and with the ruin of two lives? [4]
Our opponents, stung to madness by the defeat of 1840, have ever since rallied with more than their usual unanimity. [7]
I should wish to keep it in rational strength and coolness; but to do so I must determinedly resist the kindly-meant, but too irksome expression of an apprehension, for the realisation or defeat of which I have no possible power to be responsible. [14]
Let us drink to his health and to the certain defeat of the French! [2]
With other men, to be defeated was to be forgotten; but with him defeat was but a trifling incident, neither changing him nor the world's estimate of him. [7]
Up to this time Dick Venner had not decided on the particular mode and the precise period of relieving himself from the unwarrantable interference which threatened to defeat his plans. [6]
You are of those who think they earn all their own success and happiness, and then, when they earn defeat and despair, are surprised that others suffer. [11]
We could hold this place, could defeat them, if we were united and had but two thousand men. [11]
There are other things also that help to consume my time and defeat my projects. [5]
His defeat was then, and afterwards, complete. [11]
Loud acclamations greeted them, yet tidings of the defeat at Actium spread with the swiftness of the wind. [10]
But now, in the very hour of defeat, hope had rekindled the fire in the eyes and brought back the peculiar, tight-lipped, mocking smile to the mouth. [9]
I've been in the service thirteen years, but I never saw him like this, not even after the defeat in Algiers. [10]
Another defeat followed, the second at Bull Run. [7]
At that time, the Russians were so used to victories that on receiving news of the defeat some would simply not believe it, while others sought some extraordinary explanation of so strange an event. [2]
Yet he wished the Roman the most brilliant victory; for his defeat would have been Cleopatra's also, and would she endure the consequences of such a disaster? [10]
Sellers had had the most confident faith that with the new reinforcement victory would be at this last moment snatched from the jaws of defeat, but it was an error. [5]
Yet by saving the king's navy from defeat out here I did a good turn for my country and the empire. [11]
Real, genuine glory, the fairest of wives, and a proud crown--or defeat and ruin. [10]
In proportion to the defeat of the Austrian army Austria loses its rights, and the rights and the strength of France increase. [2]
On October 11, the day when all was astir at headquarters over the news of Mack's defeat, the camp life of the officers of this squadron was proceeding as usual. [2]
The twins considered that success in the election would reinstate them, and that defeat would work them irreparable damage. [5]
You couldn't leave that poor chap to fight along without means or profession, with certain defeat before him, and I knew you wouldn't, for his father's sake if not for his own. [5]
Also he was sure he had injured the chances of the Government by the defeat of his policy. [11]
Even in single States, under such circumstances, defeat seldom overtakes them. [7]
The siege was short, as the garrison was far too small for the city, and the citizens were discouraged by the fearful defeat at Pelusium. [10]
When asked to run for the mayoralty Saturday night, he was risking defeat, but Sunday morning found him a made man and his success assured. [5]
I will not recount the history of that defeat, my dears. [9]
He could distinctly recollect the first and second installations and death of President Washington, the surrender of Cornwallis, the battles of Trenton and Monmouth, and Bunker Hill, the proclamation of the Declaration of Independence, and Braddock's defeat. [5]
Hester saw it, recognized the imminence of the danger, and descended to the emergency, pulling herself resolutely together and plucking victor from the open jaws of defeat. [5]
It was the rascality of a minister and a contractor five years before that lost the battle; and the cause of the defeat was worthless ammunition. [4]
Now, Frederick of Prussia and England defeat the allies, France, Russia, and Austria; now, they, as Monsieur Doltaire says, "send the great Prussian to verses and the megrims. [11]
Had it been possible, she would not have left him, and on her way to Brampton through the gathering darkness she mused anxiously upon that strange calmness he had shown after defeat. [9]
After the defeat people were more loquacious. [10]
We must be patient, as our fathers were patient; even in our worst calamities, we must remember that defeat itself may be a gain where it costs our enemy more in relation to his strength than it costs ourselves. [6]
All the years passed since Carnac was begotten laid their deathly hands upon him, and he knew he could never recover from this defeat. [11]
Napoleon consoled the Parisians in their year of defeat by gilding the dome of the Invalides. [6]
The spirits of our army are exalted with victory, those of the English forces depressed by defeat. [5]
From everywhere, except one, had come either news of defeat or set-back. [11]
To leave out one of them would defeat the journey; to achieve one of them at the wrong time and in the wrong place would have the same effect. [5]
Though the door of the tent was closed, she knew that there were watchers outside; that any break for liberty would only mean defeat, and yet she was determined to save herself. [11]
This is one of the punishments that selfishness and wrong-doing brings; it gives no insurance for the hours of defeat and loss. [11]
You little handful of people here--little more than half a million--imagine that you can defeat thirty-five millions, with an army of half a million, a hundred battle- ships, ten thousand cannon and a million rifles. [11]
I could conceive of no news coming to these Highlanders later than the defeat of the Pretender. [4]
The weary months of hard work are forgotten, and you are quite as apt to think of your first velocipede, or of the pie that is awaiting you in the boathouse, as of victory and defeat. [9]
All the bitterness of defeat was on him again. [11]
Though there was no definite news of an Austrian defeat, there were many circumstances confirming the unfavorable rumors that were afloat, and so Kutuzov's suggestion of an Austrian victory sounded much like irony. [2]
Money was plainly no consideration to him, and young Colfax did not seem to be the kind who would relish returning to a young lady and acknowledge a defeat. [9]
No, he would make a decent exit, in triumph or defeat, to honour the woman who was standing his friend. [11]
Though they were loyal to the Queen, and had resolved, spite of her defeat, to support her cause, as soon as she needed them, they would not suffer Dion to be punished for a crime which, in their eyes, was an honour. [10]
Death, desertion, money losses, political defeat, flood, came one upon the other all in two years, and coupled with this was loss of health. [11]
Honora circumscribed, Honora limited, Honora admitting defeat, and this chronicle would be finished. [9]
Richard's prophecy was likely to come true: she would defeat very perfectly indeed Frank's intentions. [11]
How could her letters be otherwise when Jethro Bass, her benefactor, was at the capital working to defeat and perhaps to ruin Bob's father? [9]
Even in the last accursed Algerian defeat his helper was at his side; for, Adrian"--here he, too, lowered his voice--"without him and his wonderful power every living soul of us, down to the last boat and camp follower, would have been destroyed. [10]
What but the knowledge that somewhere in the swirl above us was still that unswerving and indomitable man who swept all obstacles from before him, and into whose mind the thought of defeat could not enter. [9]
Lincoln himself, not knowing how strongly the masses were attached to him, was haunted by dark forebodings of defeat. [7]
The newspapers are kind, but between you and me it was a defeat. [5]
This defeat had its origin in the untoward detection of a new associate--young Frederick Trent--who thus became the unconscious instrument of their punishment and his own. [12]
That to defeat it was at once to make it stronger, and to grow weaker. [9]
The defeat of it was a good thing or it was not. [7]
Tell me, Carnac, is there any card that would defeat you? [11]
This great defeat is hitherto our highest fact. [6]
In all our interviews I have urged that our first object was, not Richmond, but the defeat or scattering of Lee's army, which threatened Washington and the line of the upper Potomac. [7]
Surely now the Inglesi was altogether mad, and to-day, this day after prayers at noon, he should be shot like a mad dog, for yesterday's defeat had turned some of his own adherent sheikhs into angry critics. [11]
Your army is in the field, and if you return to your family, then will the giant help your enemies; they will defeat you, will capture your capital, and possibly something evil might befall your mother. [10]
The monument raised in memory of our defeat, which was in truth a victory, is almost as much a part of the furniture of the room as its chairs and tables; outside, as they are inside, furniture. [6]
It was sublime in its confidence, it was free from conceit, and it knew not the word despair, though once or twice it had known defeat. [11]
They were established in it in time for Mark Twain to take an active interest in the New York elections and assist a ticket for good government to defeat Tammany Hall. [5]
But, indeed, as I have learned since, Clovelly took his defeat in a very characteristic fashion, and said on an important occasion some generous things about me. [11]
It took one hundred and twenty to defeat the measure, against one hundred and twelve. [7]
Rage was in his heart, and it blinded him to the certainty of his defeat, for he was not expert in the lists. [11]
To defeat them himself seemed a small matter. [10]
I could have headed off every combination and been elected, had it not been for Matteson's double game--and his defeat now gives me more pleasure than my own gives me pain. [7]
He was convinced he would defeat you, and he wanted to avoid fighting you. [11]
How much money he needed as security in case of defeat! [10]
Instead of advancing, he had seemed, since the defeat at Algiers, to go backward. [10]
As a sportsman, he had no intention of shirking the bitterness of defeat. [9]
That is what he did to defeat it. [7]
You have faith,--you have made me feel it as you sat here,--a faith which will save you from bitterness in personal defeat. [9]
Another author would have found another instrument when he decided to defeat this elopement; but that is not McClintock's way. [5]
That is to have an abiding ideal, and patiently to hold it, in isolation, in defeat, even in an overripe civilization. [4]
The minister had hardly recovered from his vexatious defeat in the skirmish where the Widow Hopkins was his principal opponent, when he received a note from Miss Silence Withers, which promised another and more important field of conflict. [6]

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