Defeats
[di'fi:ts]
Examples
- Undismayed by forty or fifty previous defeats, Glorvina laid siege to him. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Consequently it defeats its own professed purpose. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Life covers customs, institutions, beliefs, victories and defeats, recreations and occupations. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- But though the insurgents experienced defeats and looting, neither of these generals brought the war to an end. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Consequently an attempt to train for too specific a mode of efficiency defeats its own purpose. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- But I travel to learn, and I still remember that they picture no French defeats in the battle-galleries of Versailles. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- You might say that genius works inductively and finds a method; the conservative works deductively from the method and defeats whatever genius he may have. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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