Sentence examples for kind of defeated from inspiring English sources

"I remember when he left that morning, we both felt kind of defeated," Ms. Ashcraft said.

(Its author had also drawn the poo emoji at the bottom, as a kind of defeated coda).

Playing Lucky as a slave who wouldn't know what to do with himself if he weren't indentured, Shakar mimes his part with a kind of defeated grace.

The original is sung in the kind of slightly pompous folkie voice so expertly parodied in A Mighty Wind, but in Dylan's hands it becomes a kind of defeated sigh.

A kind of defeated vibe pervading the place, like the Fuhrerbunker dinner table in summer 1945.

I get off stage feeling kind of defeated and the host says to me, "don't worry about it, you're a woman, we'll just stare at your boobs".

But isn't that kind of defeating the purpose of an analog source?

But when you are out chanting "death to cops," you're kind of defeating the purpose.

Which kind of defeats the whole point.

We might even learn something from this kind of defeat.

Doesn't that kind of defeat the point?