Sentence examples for I've been defeated from inspiring English sources

I cannot count the times I've been defeated, humiliated, or physically injured immediately after saying the words, "Hey, how hard can it be?" But that never seems to stop me from saying them again.

I have been defeated in arguments many times and I am happy to have learned from it.

The Austrian, German, and Ottoman monarchies also collapsed after World War I, having been defeated militarily and replaced by indigenous nationalist movements.

I had been defeated, but I was far from upset.

"How do you claim victory when you've been defeated?

She infused the subject with such passion that I cried when I learned Athens had been defeated in the Peloponnesian War.

In 1525, after Francis I of France had been defeated and captured at Pavia, Guise assumed a prominent place in Louise of Savoy's council of regency.

In 1177 he concluded a truce with his father's old enemy, the German king Frederick I Barbarossa, who had been defeated by the Lombard League at Legnano in 1176 and no longer seemed dangerous to Sicily.

She accused me of being defeatist; I said that she had been defeated.

I knew that Churchill had been defeated as Prime Minister soon after his brilliant leadership of the second world war, but I was not sure why.

I felt shame when I wrote a few weeks ago in these pages about recently being tumbled into a year-long depression and now I feel the shame again, but I will go ahead and write anyway because I feel I have to, until the stigma has been defeated.