"costly" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Peter Green describes this defeat as "a crippling and costly defeat".
- This victory was soon followed by a costly defeat.
- In this campaign, as with those that followed in 612, 613, and 614, Sui met with costly defeat.
- That failure doomed America to its costly and tragic defeat in Vietnam.
- Her cause, whatever it was, had taken a costly defeat.
- It had been a costly defeat, and it might be costlier still for him once the Kremlin started seeking a scapegoat.
- But the entire drug war, America's most costly defeat since Vietnam, has been in good faith.
- We delivered a costly defeat to him not long ago.
- There were other breakdowns that occurred earlier in the game that played huge roles in the costly defeat.
- Instead, it became the scene of a humiliating and costly defeat for Russian forces.
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