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    Use "defeat" in a sentence

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    1. …your boundary of fear is your boundary of defeat


    2. words of defeat, but to confess only what the Word of God says…, be


    3. Only the words of victory, not of defeat, must be heard in your house


    4. We defeat the devil when we are rooted in the foundation of the Word of


    5. and turns the planned defeat into their victory


    6. "Letting them live as Satan's Slaves is defeat," Moamar said, coming dangerously close to insolence in the face of the Haadij


    7. The results were always the same, defeat, destruction or driven from the presence of


    8. "We can punish," Vincef said, "we cannot defeat


    9. 'We can punish, but cannot defeat


    10. To truly defeat them we need to cause this star to explode

    11. Knowing how thin the margin is between victory and defeat, Ram Devlin races to the Squidies' homeworld moon with a weapon of mass destruction that could end the war in seconds


    12. those who would defeat you I will grant you one wish, and you will have the


    13. They have been chosen to be the ones to defeat Satan’s nation


    14. They still remain until their final defeat


    15. It is upon that final defeat that God rains down fire from heaven, and the only thing to follow is the judgment seat (see Revelation 20)


    16. 'Believe me boss, we will defeat these pirates


    17. A defeat in a test match was one thing, but an


    18. We could have had an innings defeat


    19. Hasmukh-ji's defeat has a back story


    20. had to admit defeat

    21. I wish I were young enough to contest him, simply to defeat him in a fight


    22. “And so this is how you finally defeat me


    23. 2pm we threw up our hands in defeat and stopped by the


    24. At last she had to admit defeat


    25. They couldn’t hope to defeat this foe


    26. Even defeat it


    27. "Dertois should heed an old friend's advice and accept defeat


    28. "In the initial attack on our world, they came at Lock Core head-on and because of it, suffered their first defeat


    29. will appear in the form of an army that does not know defeat


    30. At the War of Lock Core, Drau'd had faced similar beings, and with the power of Hell's Bane he was able to defeat them, though only by reducing their bodies to mush

    31. And because of it, there would be no miracle victory, only another meaningless defeat


    32. “Is that what you want from me? To test my power? That in your defeat you will accept the Maker?”


    33. Even when the full force of the Plague stood amassed at the base of the Graelic, he refused to accept defeat


    34. Imorbis was never one to accept defeat


    35. Besides, if she didn’t, she doubted she could defeat him once fully infected


    36. There’d be no marriage for Nausicaa until someone could defeat him at any of these contests


    37. assertion that man tries not only to defeat the nature,


    38. Also, he was well aware that this wasn’t the first time Adros had faced the being; there had been two such encounters in the past, and each battle had ended in Adros’ defeat


    39. the defeat of the elves an apparent inevitability


    40. case of very likely defeat, it remains the honour

    41. It was inconceivable that a blind man could defeat an armored


    42. His defeat by a cripple in front of Ithaca’s


    43. Faith in that our transgressions will not defeat us in worrying or suffering


    44. The thought that maybe he had done his best and should now just accept defeat flashed through his mind


    45. But as soon as he started to yield to such a weighty feeling of defeat and entertain the notion of simply spurring back to the east, he remembered the Breton woman’s smile and her laughter -


    46. But the declension of the naval power of this latter nation, in consequence of the defeat or miscarriage of what they called their invincible armada, which happened towards the end of the sixteenth century, put it out of their power to obstruct any longer the settlements of the other European nations


    47. Fletcher bravely carried Lucy for the best part of a kilometre and then had to admit defeat


    48. ‘I act under orders of the Council; the Council decrees that we will defeat the Elusivers by use of all resources


    49. Then we might as well admit defeat, stop fighting the inevitable


    50. The last time Roidon had been here – over two centuries ago – he had set about to defeat a powerful alien, using the technology of an even more powerful alien species














































    1. Israel the nation had been defeated, its women dispersed thruout all the countries that would later be called Talstan


    2. He jumps up and finds the defeated, miserable girl full of dangerous secrets and lies, still crying on the floor


    3. “Because you have defeated


    4. King who defeated an army without making widows out of wives


    5. Satan has been defeated over those nations


    6. Reason, defeated by logic, fades; negative thoughts pounding me from every side, I struggle to rationalise


    7. is a man defeated


    8. My dear aunt, so wretched and forlorn, so defeated in her grief, I dared not make a sound


    9. I looked up in pain and said, "Thoughts, thoughts, too many thoughts!" finally defeated


    10. way we should be defeated by them

    11. ' The boy sat trembling in front of the blaze and slowly wept himself to sleep, defeated by events


    12. His men are defeated and he has no defense


    13. Persians were defeated at the battle of Marathon


    14. To Davie the thing looks like an instrument of torture or the skeleton of a defeated alien invader


    15. “The accomplice might not have known what he was doing,” she said, “the Instinct can be defeated that way


    16. A year into the training, Johnson watched as Roman defeated the best of


    17. “It was the wicked Queen Oizys, but we defeated her, remember?”


    18. “But hang on, how did you ‘protect it’? It was overtaken by Queen Oizys a few weeks ago, before we defeated her


    19. Justice rose up the atmosphere to meet the enormous Hesean Fleet, this one much larger than the one he had defeated earlier


    20. large army, but it will be defeated

    21. The Boulder Dwarf looked angrier than ever at his words, while the blind, old man simply looked defeated


    22. Sadly, three of their Lords fell before it was defeated


    23. That they defeated it at all seemed a miracle, for whatever dark power gave it strength also made it nearly indestructible


    24. He would have his vengeance on the being that threatened to extinguish his life, and prove that he was not one to be so easily defeated


    25. "Why should I do anything? What difference will it make? After battling the Undeath for an eternity, I have grown accustomed to the fact that it cannot be defeated


    26. The Plague has been here once before, and it was defeated -- by one man


    27. They faced the Void itself, a foe even the Maker had never truly defeated


    28. He even defeated Imorbis himself, his first such loss in over a millennium


    29. Ostedes would not be defeated


    30. Looking doubtful and defeated, the Magi headed to the indicated area

    31. Now that her strength was restored, Nerissa knew she could easily beat Dora in a fight -- after all, she’d defeated many warriors, including women, during her clan’s travels --


    32. defeated it several times - and have been


    33. game controller long after she defeated the bad guys, won


    34. To dream that you have been defeated indicates that you are headed in the wrong direction


    35. " Edward sounded defeated


    36. Though news came back that they’d defeated the Eretrians on the Lelantine Plain, Hippomachus’s ship did not return


    37. And after a series of hits, the Chaurus was eventually defeated


    38. Maybe this had been a rescue attempt and it was defeated so quickly the military never let word get out


    39. In these circumstances, and among troops who had some confidence in their own skill and dexterity in the use of their arms, it must have been a good deal less difficult to preserve some degree of regularity and order, not only in the beginning, but through the whole progress of an ancient battle, and till one of the two armies was fairly defeated


    40. In this march, he is said to have been misled by his guides ; and in a country which he did not know, was surprised and attacked, by another standing army, in every respect equal or superior to his own, and was entirely defeated

    41. The disheartened and frequently defeated African militia joined it, and, at the battle of Zama, composed the greater part of the troops of Annibal


    42. Death had become the enemy to be defeated without countenance


    43. Defeated, empty and depressed


    44. Even though the Union forces were defeated at


    45. It was hopeless! What could she do to stop them? In every future, she massed her armies to try to capture and Heal her friends, but in every future, she was defeated, her armies were defeated; it was the beginning of the Age of Chaos


    46. After hanging the last of the flyers, I slowly headed back home, defeated


    47. The Nymloc and Jacoulra preferred to move in huge wedges, formations of a sort where their front lines pushed, hacked, and slashed with their claws and fangs, while those behind waited to take over when the front lines were defeated


    48. One, Israel conquered and survived, and two, the Palestinians were dispersed throughout the region, with absolutely no support from the defeated Arab governments that had supposedly supported them


    49. In late 1960, however, he showed a great deal of class by refusing to contest the eminently contestable 1960 election in which John Kennedy defeated him with the efforts of thousands of dead voters in Illinois and Texas, without whose votes Kennedy would not have won


    50. Said Pyrrhus, Kind of Epirus, after having defeated the Romans at Asculum in BC 279, with heavy losses, including most of his elephants, „Another such victory, and I am undone














































    1. Remember that you are defeating the purpose of growing organically if you use a soap with polluting chemicals in it


    2. A part of defeating the lack of


    3. You were capable of defeating the Brain by your chanting


    4. And having only trained in hand-to-hand combat, he had a supreme advantage over the god; who believed himself more than capable of defeating a child


    5. Some would think he wished him ill, after defeating, and disfiguring him


    6. resistance while he killed us, but Father knew there was no defeating such a giant with a direct attack


    7. She had the good sense not to mention that he’d chastised her for defeating Jeremos that


    8. Torbin allowed himself the thought that perhaps there really was some hope of defeating the Elusivers


    9. President Abraham Lincoln was reelected president, defeating


    10. The only way to win was by defeating the ideology itself

    11. ‘Maybe there’s a part I can play in defeating it, but I’ll need more instructions from Zolla


    12. We listened to the radio: “The joint forces of our army from all over Russia, under the leadership of our revered leader and hero Jossif Stalin, has held out against the aggressors and are currently defeating them and inflicting upon them heavy losses


    13. Much like in Europe, it was the Soviets who played the key role in defeating Japan


    14. Rarely taught is that Francis Scott Key's lyrics also celebrate US troops defeating runaway slaves, who were among the British troops


    15. Defeating the Confederacy prevented wars of aggression against the Dominican Republic, Mexico, and Spain, as well as future wars against the US, saving at least 120,000 lives


    16. “Maybe, but defeating us is not the same as defeating the other major powers


    17. The campaigns of the first caliph, abu Bakr, dealt with defeating, then uniting all the tribal groups of the eastern Arabian peninsula who had been only nominally under the suzerainty of a previously weakened Sassanian (Persian) Empire


    18. Constantine had reunited the Roman world after defeating his rivals, with the help, he claimed, of the Christian God


    19. that seeks our destruction! And our only hope of defeating this enemy is to know


    20. I had learnt my lesson, my brothers came in a vicious package, and defeating one was conquering the other

    21. If we have any chance of defeating my brothers we need to leave no stone unturned”


    22. and USSR had a common interest in defeating the Axis powers


    23. She barely reaches his chest, her single-minded fury all but defeating him


    24. All four of you are fine people and great warriors, whom we would be glad to have at our backs in any battle, but if we strive against you with our utmost effort and all of our available resources, you will need to co-operate as a quartet while fighting at the limits of your skill and power in order to have an even chance of defeating us


    25. This is not a story about defeating fear and being courageous


    26. And without the Key we don’t stand a chance of defeating the Shadow Clan


    27. And Uncle Vinnie said it was a clue to defeating Apophis


    28. of defeating the serpent, Sadie and I would have to use this statue for Plan


    29. At last the fighters succeeded in defeating the gryphons


    30. defeating the Antagonist, just when it looks like the Hero/Heroine can't possibly Win

    31. Bianca knows defeating the robots can’t be this easy


    32. After defeating the spider, a huge wooden door rose up


    33. Defeating the cloud monster was not as easy as it looked


    34. ―Ah, Grandfather, I am defeating my enemies


    35. But my words can help him; helping him in defeating the monster, for stopping himself controlled by the monster


    36. I will get into that subject later in this book and hopefully that will show also where we are defeating our very selves


    37. “What will be your plans of defeating the Orderrans once you leave this place?”


    38. It might have been said that she wove during the day and unwove during the night, and not with any hope of defeating solitude in that way, but, quite the contrary, in order to nurture it


    39. Defeating my men twice!


    40. She thought then that love on one side was defeating love on the other, because it was characteristic of men to deny hunger once their appetites were satisfied

    41. Defeating Southern Pride would


    42. After barely defeating the second has-been, Joey harangued


    43. defeating the entire earth


    44. There I was in New York, defeating the American champ,


    45. Murray drove to Carnarvon and bought a state of the art electronic home security kit which was fingerprint activated, fifteen micro-size surveillance camera’s with proximity switches, an assortment of other switches and what seemed like kilometres of armoured underground electrical wire, with his past experience in defeating security devices, Murray knew the weaknesses and strength’s of the different systems, Murray was determined to build a wall around Shirl that a mouse would find difficult to penetrate undetected, his security curtain would be both deadly and controllable, satisfied with his first day’s purchases he drove back to Dream Bay and unloaded everything in the workshop


    46. In the meantime, Hitler focused on an economic war with Britain and pursued the aim of defeating Britain in three different ways:


    47. The break-out of the ships was a supreme example of meticulous German planning and efficiency; defeating the hasty last minute improvisations of the British, however, there were compensating advantages for the British


    48. There will also be a political price for defeating the Communists, as part of the solution will be to split open the Vietminh into its communist and purely nationalist factions


    49. self defeating because the investor will be “chasing earnings”, and no analyst can predict


    50. He extended the borders of Macedonia by defeating the neighboring Illyrians and Thracians






































    1. They managed to cram a tremendous amount of stuff in - though the second set of bookshelves defeats them, and has to be left with the other furniture to be transported by the hauliers


    2. say that 2011 has been a year of defeats; on the


    3. They got so badly defeated that their top general was executed by firing squad for his defeats


    4. The German Generals opposing the Russians were the best tacticians in the entire war and not all their defeats could be due to manpower alone


    5. There was no insurgency as such because ANC learned from their defeats in Rhodesia and Angola that it would be suicide to establish bases in the rural area


    6. Both elections ended in resounding defeats for the Republican (Conservative) candidate Barry Goldwater in 1964 and the Democratic (Liberal) candidate, George McGovern in 1972, respectively


    7. (For anyone wondering, most “massacres” done by Natives were actually combat defeats of US troops or colonist militias


    8. From the start, dedicated anti-Communists worried the focus on human rights would lead to defeats in the Cold War


    9. weakened by the defeats of its previous life


    10. defeats the purpose of lifestyle changes and upsets the balance created

    11. become incredibly attentive to the petty one-ups and defeats that


    12. an account of their accomplishments, their defeats, and where


    13. But as the Germans increased their military expansion, Attlee denounced Neville Chamberlain’s infamous “peace in our time” by stating that it was “one of the greatest diplomatic defeats that this country and France have ever sustained


    14. “Being a stand out character defeats the first purpose of being


    15. Just a small amount of God’s love conquers all sin, a little of God’s truth defeats all lies, and a tiny bit of holiness will cause us to be completely consumed by the living God! Yet many don’t make themselves available enough to deeply know our awesome God


    16. He remember the many defeats at the hand of this, the mightiest of angels


    17. " Anti-corruption campaigner Baba Ramdev said that the INC was using the nomination and Tendulkar's stature to boost its battered image through series of scandals and electoral defeats


    18. and the defeats I celebrated as victories


    19. The wise man is able to distinguish between means and ends; otherwise, sometimes overplanning for the future defeats its own high purpose


    20. Her expression, as he narrated victories or defeats, did not mirror the wild rage or fiendish exultation that alternated on the faces of the other Tecuhltli

    21. During this period Aquilonia's only defeats were: her failure to annex Nemedia; the rout of an army sent into Cimmeria; and the almost complete destruction of an army by the Aesir


    22. Won’t be constantly mispronounced or misspelled, which defeats the purpose of a name


    23. Warren devoted the next two hours to a detailed briefing on the Third Force, its history, its victories and its few defeats


    24. One of its defeats had come as a result of actions by Fiona’s mother, Sabrina, and a task force commanded by then Federation Pirate Interdiction Specialist Captain Alina Darwin, who was now his pilot and consort, but its most devastating defeat had been delivered by a sentient battleship now known as the Queen Elizabeth


    25. This is how faith defeats fear


    26. When the latter saw the rocking chair carried by four men appear and saw the friend who had shared his victories and defeats since youth sitting in it among some large pillows, he did not have a single doubt but that he was making that effort in order to express his solidarity


    27. it without any defeats whatsoever


    28. On the one hand they encountered white segregated fundamentalists reeling from humiliating defeats in their defense of God’s Word


    29. As the war continued and the news was filled with battles, defeats and, very occasionally at this stage, victories, often in places which had previously been no more than names in an Atlas, she seemed to shrink visibly and become more remote from domestic life


    30. In his overzealous effort, he sensed Chance's need for competitive redemption; the innumerable hours of hitter versus pitcher, the bitter defeats each of them suffered at the hands of each other

    31. The succession of humiliating naval defeats at the hands of the Japanese around Guadalcanal had also revealed quite a few more duds in command at sea, while Vandegrift had on his part to get rid of a few duds in his division at the start of the campaign


    32. that defeats armies when exhaustion sets in to retain


    33. Two more stinging defeats inflicted on Army units in Korea, first on July 5th in Osan, then in Chonan just yesterday, along with a series of blunt articles about the shocking lack of preparation of the American Army, had deeply tarnished the image of the Pentagon in the eyes of the public, which was now asking for heads to roll


    34. Even while taking account of their recent defeats and withdrawals, the standard of dress is deplorable and many of those soldiers have lost, or should I say threw away, nearly all their personal field kit, including their entrenching tool and their steel helmet


    35. He was quite convinced that after the defeats in Norway and particularly after the disaster at Dunkirk, Britain would sue for peace


    36. He believed that the Russian people, as in World War One, would revolt against the political leadership if they suffered heavy defeats


    37. Hitler's over-confidence stemmed from the crushing defeats that his army had previously administered


    38. The British public were already despondent enough about defeats from Dunkirk to Singapore


    39. After three years of crushing defeats, Japan was in a desperate plight, regardless of the assurances of her military leaders that exhorted the war weary and homeless population to even greater efforts in defence of their homeland


    40. They had shared the triumphs and the defeats together

    41. Despite of these handicaps, however, the American colonists fought on for years, sustaining many defeats, but eventually won through sheer resilience and strength of spirit


    42. backyard the more cluttered it will begin to appear, which completely defeats the purpose of


    43. Let us remember that his typical behavior defeats what appear to


    44. These are bleak times for the monarchy in England, what with the recent defeats suffered by young King Charles the Second in Scotland


    45. killed and mutilated all before them, he would be avenged for the insults and defeats of centuries


    46. In the overall design of things, small setbacks and defeats matter little, says the narcissist


    47. Bur the main principle of Tai Qi Quan didn’t change and is stated in the following principles: Statics begets dynamics; the pliable overcomes the rigid; the slow defeats the fast; the short defeats the long


    48. The walls hide achievements, joy, defeats, and cries, concealed by time emotions highlighted by the unequalled repainted blue and the golden and pearl frame pictures


    49. Maybe it is time that the Musalmans have a balanced view of their victories and defeats over the centuries, but in their desperation for the advent of a Saladin to subdue the hated infidels, they have reduced themselves into gloating over the Osamas and Nasrallahs as the modern-day Islamic saviors


    50. Well, after a prolonged Christian humiliation that was the colonization of the Muslim world, what these two military defeats might have done to the Islamic psyche is not hard to imagine


































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    Synonyms for "defeat"

    defeat licking frustration get the better of overcome kill shoot down vote down vote out bafflement downfall reverse failure beating ruin overthrow disappointment debacle conquest subjugation destruction annihilation whipping come down conquer overpower check crush quell entrap smash master mock baffle balk disconcert undo foil beat trounce win over throw pound outplay

    "defeat" definitions

    an unsuccessful ending to a struggle or contest


    the feeling that accompanies an experience of being thwarted in attaining your goals


    win a victory over


    thwart the passage of