Sentence examples for be trounced from inspiring English sources

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be trounced

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To win against (someone) by a wide margin; to beat thoroughly, to defeat heavily

  • The Mexican team trounced the Americans by 10 goals to 1.

Exact(39)

Aggressors would be trounced.

Yet the polls predict that it will be trounced.

The hapless Raiders look set to be trounced by the Eels.

But if he called one now, the polls show, he would be trounced.

But few could have expected that St. John's would be trounced by Hofstra.

The coalition would be trounced by the opposition Social Democrats and Greens, according to latest opinion polls.

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Mr. Bush should be trouncing Senator John Kerry.

The USDP was trounced.

(He was trounced).

Everywhere else he was trounced.

Instead, the league was trounced.

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