Sentence examples for is trounced from inspiring English sources

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is 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.

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31 January 2015 Campbell Newman's Coalition government is trounced in Queensland, after enjoying just one term in office.

But if a substandard United States team is trounced by Mexico on Wednesday, Klinsmann might not want to pick up a newspaper or log on to the Internet.

Even if he is trounced in November, there will be conspiracy theories about a "stolen" election, which Trump and his campaign have already begun promulgating.

This is fatal for the maturing of any medium, as the fundamental need to tell a story, or to conjure a subtlety of mood, is trounced and swept aside by the sudden opportunity to show off.

To publish is to offer up a set of pages to strangers and to subject them to public assessment, which is why writers have no right whingeing when published work is trounced in the press.

Amid such stirrings, Mr Chirac looks ever more naked, despite Mr Séguin's insistence that the Gaullists want to "defend the president, who remains our point of reference and source of inspiration".Every time France's right is trounced in an election, excited talk of reconstruction, renovation and unification breaks out to little avail.

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Second, Clinton is trouncing Sanders in the national polls.

The Democratic former law professor is trouncing the ex-pilot in sales of action figures.

So far, the media-wise Commerce Ministry is trouncing the normally secretive central bank.

The Suffolk poll found that President Obama is trouncing Mr. Romney, a former governor of the state, 64 percent to 31 percent.

The Russell 2000 is trouncing the DJIA year-to-date.

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