"defeat" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Only a year later, she was defeated roundly at the polls.
- The enemy (people who like plays) have been roundly defeated.
- If he had run for office, he probably would have been roundly defeated.
- This attempt was roundly defeated - in a meeting far better attended than the original debate.
- He was roundly defeated, but sought a rematch in 1929.
- The Italians made one major attempt to attack a convoy, and they were roundly defeated in doing so.
- Watson roundly defeated him in 1931 as part of Labor's collapse to 14 seats nationwide.
- Steve Forbes's great passion is politics, though he was roundly defeated in his 1996 and 2000 presidential campaigns, which cost him about $70 million.
- "The Iranians told us they were sure the Iraqi army would be roundly defeated in the war with the allies."
- Vernius has always been your family's rival, and they roundly defeated you in the trade wars.
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