"defeat" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The treaty appropriation won by a single vote, dealing the Republicans a devastating defeat.
- The battle was a devastating defeat, and has been characterized as one of the most disastrous in British colonial history.
- The people in the hall wailed at hearing of the devastating defeat.
- Then again, after such a devastating defeat and so many lost, it was even more possible that there would be no pursuit at all.
- It was widely described as the most devastating defeat Roosevelt had ever experienced.
- Six months after a devastating defeat, the San Francisco 49ers are preparing for a new season without some familiar faces.
- The first was the burden of history in a place where many people still remembered slavery, Reconstruction, and a devastating military defeat.
- This would be a devastating defeat for the Federation.
- And it was a devastating defeat for those who believe that Government should pay an activist role in protecting the public health.
- It was a devastating defeat for Bertrand and his crew.
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