"defeat" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- It was a disastrous defeat for the Byzantines, whose army broke and fled.
- In 1999 he resigned after a disastrous 9-0 defeat to Spain.
- The result was a disastrous defeat for the French.
- Cox would not be acceptable after his disastrous defeat in 1920.
- The battle resulted in a disastrous defeat for the American forces.
- However this naval campaign ended in disastrous defeat of Cirebon.
- If 16,000 troops were sent into battle and lost 6,500 killed, it would mean they'd suffered a disastrous defeat.
- He suffered a disastrous defeat and died soon after.
- Two men who fought each other for the leadership after the disastrous defeat of 1983, settled down well together.
- The most disastrous defeat the party had ever known.
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