Sentence examples for managed to spoil from inspiring English sources

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The self-proclaimed separatist leaders in Donbas managed to spoil the presidential vote.

But fickle fate, like the genie who grants a wish, has managed to spoil his hour of triumph.

She was wrong about the Bagger's wrongness, thankfully, but managed to spoil his night – when we get something TOTALLY wrong at the Times, as the Bagger has said, flying monkeys come out of the ceiling and kill us – and he wasted a day proving he was right in the first place.

As soon as I got the job, people managed to spoil a lot for me.

Somehow I've managed to spoil my kids with the money we do have.

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I may also manage to spoil Wolf Hall, the six-part TV dramatisation of which begins on the BBC on Wednesday.

He'll only be on screen for a matter of seconds, but still manages to spoil the take by cracking up.

"We managed to get the spoils from either turnovers or penalties and edged our way in front".

Naturally, few films make the effort of displaying the totality of all viewpoints in one sequence, or simply can't, which is something "Spoils of War" managed to do in a 20-minute battle scene largely because we already had 50+ hours of caring about Game of Thrones' characters.

At the very least, you run the risk of finding that flight has spoiled any fond memories you managed to smuggle out.

Arsenal managed to edge past Swansea 1-0 in their midweek FA Cup replay, but lost their last league game 0-2 to Manchester City, after Laurent Koscielny's early red card spoiled their chances.

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