Sentence examples for are defeats from inspiring English sources

There are defeats and there are defeats.

History cannot be all victories, as we know, but there are defeats of which no one likes to be reminded.

The Republic of Ireland may not have been expected to get anything out the visit of Germany but then there are defeats and there are embarrassments.

There are defeats without corresponding victories, and vice versa, and there are defeats which are victories, and vice versa, and it is important to distinguish them, for otherwise one is at risk of seeing one's life as having too high a proportion of defeats to victories, which is very rarely true.

We are defeated.

The Kaijus are defeated.

The Ottomans are defeated easily.

The amendment was defeated.

The measures were defeated.

He was defeated.

(The recall was defeated).