"defeat" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The fool had been gloating for months now over his defeat of the Hawk.
- Still, the associates said he had shown no signs of deep despair over his recent defeat.
- Gordon is probably still throwing household objects around the room over his defeat.
- Used to getting what he wanted, Nelson became deeply vengeful and antagonistic over his defeat.
- I can't believe that Democrats are having such a fit over its defeat.
- The right-wingers in the House caucus were seething over their defeat.
- Conservatives were bitter over their defeat because they knew that President Reagan had considered the issue carefully and repeatedly.
- Emerson had been brooding over his defeat, as he would consider it, and could hardly wait to get his wife alone.
- When he lost he rode away to sulk, too put out over his defeat to even stay around and talk about it.
- The book also discussed the pressures of being a political wife, and her disappointment over her husband's defeat in the 1988 election.
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