"defeat" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- He has regained the nation's admiration, as an outsider once more, only after a painful defeat.
- His painful 1981 defeat was not just a judgment on his policies or his record in Congress.
- Their season has followed a formula: They win an important game, then return the next day and stumble to a painful defeat.
- The Safavid army, unfamiliar with firearms, suffered a painful defeat.
- His re-examination of France's painful defeat in 1870 was among the first of its kind.
- And what would happen if Honored Matres met painful defeat?
- Another reason is to protect a known player from the insult of a painful defeat.
- I considered it a painful personal defeat when I could not bring about the identification of someone who came under my care.
- When the Democrats lost the presidential race in Ohio two years ago, it was a painful defeat to many on the local level.
- This was underlined by a painful defeat in the parliamentary elections only a few months ago.
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