"defeat" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- "We estimate that, by 1990, the mercenary forces will be reduced to their lowest strength, after sustaining a total defeat during the period 1988-1990," the plan said.
- Brady does not dominate the sports calendar, and probably never will, because he never supplies a controversy and rarely sustains a defeat.
- The crusaders sustained a great defeat near the city in 1098.
- The Sayyid sustained a complete defeat despite his vastly superior numbers.
- The Knights also sustained a defeat in the Polish-Teutonic War (1431-1435).
- These airborne troops and partisans fought a conventional battle with German forces and sustained a major defeat.
- During the 1987 strike, owners briefly fielded replacements, and the players ultimately crossed the picket line as the union sustained a debilitating defeat.
- We have sustained a defeat without a war," he said, ". . . and do not suppose that this is the end.
- On September 29, 1848 the Austrian troops sustained a defeat at the hands of the Hungarian revolutionary forces.
- He then sustained a defeat at White Plains after which most of the Continental Army went home.
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