"defeat" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- In 1322, the Armenians suffered a great defeat under its walls.
- The crusaders sustained a great defeat near the city in 1098.
- She adds that the book "was therapy for me at the time of a great defeat."
- However, had it not been for his strong performance, Albania would have suffered an even greater defeat.
- The Japanese could hardly be expected to back a memorial on the site of their last great military defeat.
- The engagement was a great defeat for the Union Army.
- But, gentlemen, there is another sense in which to use the term a great defeat.
- In 1881 he suffered a great political defeat, having lost an election.
- The Knights suffered a great defeat, leaving most of their leadership dead or captured.
- From the triumphs of his art, he turns with desire to this greater defeat.
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