Sentence examples for bested on from inspiring English sources

(The MacPierce team got bested on that one; the winners used four thousand toothpicks on a team member's great-uncle).

Edison got LearnNow's share of the pie by buying the company, but it seems to have learned little from being bested on the ground in Chester.

He ended a recent column for The Week, titled "The Reckless Right Courts Violence," with a plea that the president "be met and bested on the field of reason," not with guns.

But in light of the President's most recent blunder, an immigration row which has  left enemies comparing him to an idiotic King Solomon, it is hardly surprising - not least of all because Hollande was bested on this occasion by a 15-year old Roma girl.

The world's most powerful spy, CIA chief John Brennan, was bested on Monday by a self-described "stoner" 13-year-old and an associate, who broke into his America Online email account and started posting some of its contents on Twitter.

As in the two previous debates since he entered the race, Perry's hesitant performance saw him bested on stage by his main rival, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, who twice shrugged off Perry's garbled efforts to attack his record, saying dismissively: "Nice try".

After all, nothing beats best-on-best competition.

He is best on purely economic ones.

But she is best on firm turf.

Los Angeles fared best on the isolation index.

Labour polls best on health.