Sentence examples for defeats to draw from inspiring English sources

On the pitch, Whittingham is happy with his players after they bounced back from seven straight league defeats to draw with Coventry and Tranmere.

Chris Rogers struck a century as Middlesex staved off the threat of defeat to draw against Northants.

Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal said his side "could have scored six" but admitted it felt "like a defeat" to draw 3-3 at Newcastle.

It plunged the shellshocked Labour party into a leadership contest before it had time to absorb its general election defeat or to draw wise conclusions.

Will the England and Wales Cricket Board brush aside the defeat and look to draw a line under a disastrous winter?

WASHINGTON — President Obama urged Senate Democrats on Wednesday to move beyond a demoralizing defeat last month in Massachusetts and to draw a lesson for their own campaigns as they navigate the difficult headwinds of a midterm election year.

On 18 19 August 1916, the High Seas Fleet again sortied in an attempt to draw out and defeat Admiral Beatty's battlecruiser squadron.

Yet something seems to draw them inexorably toward defeat.

But his three-match spell as interim coach in 2006 was less successful as his team suffered defeats to Ireland and France and drew with Italy.

Those results did include defeats to France and Brazil and a draw against Spain, all tough opponents, but they also included a defeat to Austria and draw with Turkey, neither of which qualified for the World Cup.

Those days of discomfort stretched into this season - defeat to Chelsea, frustrating draws against Burnley and Swansea City - but there is an energy to Mauricio Pochettino's side which cannot be denied by a different pitch, an unfamiliar dressing-room.