Sentence examples for bested and from inspiring English sources

Marco Berti's ringing tenor engaged the role of Radames as an obstacle to be bested and a test to be passed.

Even the sourest Scrooge or Grinch would have to smile at the finale, when the witch is bested (and basted) and the stage suddenly fills with her revived victims: a beaming bevy of children in dapper folk-tale costume.

Another sort of movie might have required this woman to be bested and humiliated in some retaliatory scene, but the incident is merely left alone (though the woman's glowering face appears in the audience later) as testament to June's essential grit.

Calafia is bested and taken prisoner, and she converts to Christianity.

The best and toughest players survived.

(They had the best, and cheapest, engineers).

Anthony is their best, and only, hope.

These should be our best and brightest.

The best and worst literary puns.

The best, and maybe the only one.

Kings recruit "the best and brightest".