Sentence examples for it seemed defeated from inspiring English sources

Queens Plaza feels tired, and for decades it seemed defeated.

She seemed defeated.

Outside class, though, he seemed defeated.

She seemed defeated by what she'd been through.

Shlegel called a few people to complain, but he seemed defeated and frustrated in his unexpressive way.

"He seemed defeated and I was terrified for him," he wrote.

It has been around for decades, and the rust is biting deep; even the spirited Willis and Pfeiffer seem defeated by the need to chew their lower lips and frown at regular intervals..

Now many of the yards have grimy "For Sale" signs, and the neighborhood seems defeated, as if having ceded the battle for gracious living to the suburbs.

Colors had become so confrontational under Oliviero Toscani, who started the magazine in 1991, that it seemed to defeat the original mission, which was to bring a sense of social responsibility to Benetton's $2 billion-a-year apparel line "It has been very focused on misery and pain," said Mr. Andersen, promising that future issues would be a blend of old Life magazine and National Geographic.

The city felt so pervasively absent that it seemed to defeat the idea of taking any kind of aim.

The Red Army and the Royal Air Force played no role, it seems, in defeating Hitler's Germany, and the atomic bomb was developed, according to Mr Brokaw, not by Leo Szilard, Enrico Fermi or Niels Bohr but by "America's pre-eminent physicists".For all that, the quiet courage and plain decency of many of the people Mr Brokaw describes make up for these limitations.