Example Sentences

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“They were defeating blocks,” Washington Coach Chris Petersen said.

From Washington Post • Nov. 13, 2016

While the Washington Senators were defeating the Cleveland Indians 9-1 in Robert F. Kennedy Stadium last week, the home-town team was losing a far more significant battle in Boston by the score of 10-2.

From Time Magazine Archive

“The blow to morale was more of our own doing than anything the enemy had accomplished with its army. We were defeating ourselves.”

From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge

Addressing the philosopher, I continued—"Did YOU, sir, in assenting to article 10, imagine that you were defeating justice, countenancing oppression, and succoring might to the injury of right?"

From The Monikins by Cooper, James Fenimore

Our message to Irish farmers was that they must imitate the methods of their Continental competitors, who were defeating them in their own markets simply by superior organisation.

From The Rural Life Problem of the United States Notes of an Irish Observer by Plunkett, Horace Curzon, Sir