Sentence examples for respectable loss from inspiring English sources

One adviser said the campaign, in the end, was headed for a very respectable loss..

One adviser said the campaign, in the end, was headed for a very respectable loss.

Out in Chicago, Jack Kennedy made a fast, strenuous grab at the nomination, and posted a respectable loss to the Tennessee senator Estes Kefauver.

They have started off the season 5-2, with one of those being a respectable loss to the impossible Warriors, Andre Drummond looks like a serious two-way threat, and Reggie Jackson has been showing signs that he may not, in fact, be the most ridiculous signing of free agency.

After a respectable loss to five time world champions Brazil (2-1), North Koreans lost their next match to Portugal 7-0, before giving up the last game 3-0 to Ivory Coast.

Respectable losses to Stanford, North Carolina or Purdue, all ranked above No. 23 St. John's, would do nothing to harm the Red Storm's confidence or march back toward national acclaim.

Rivers had just come off a grueling seven-game series with Chicago and had watched his team fight back from a 28-point deficit to a respectable 95-90 loss against the Magic.

At the 2010 World Cup (where North Korea posted an eminently respectable 2-1 loss to Brazil), the national coach blamed their opening defeat on the fact that "most" of the players had been struck by lightning a month before during training.

And it could have been assumed that despite Harvard's respectable 12-13 win-loss theal, the Crimson were still no match for league-leader Cornell and its 19-8 (9-2 Ivy League) record Saturday night (Feb. 28).

Not just a respectable, Mitt Romney-type loss, but an utter, humiliating landslide.

Rather than the Looney Tunes pulling off an unlikely win-or even a respectable draw or narrow loss-the desert Monstars were able to run rampant and pulverize the feeble opposition into total submission.