Sentence examples for suffered defeat from inspiring English sources
Soon, however, they suffered defeat after defeat.
[But] cold war methods have suffered defeat in strategic terms.
As the Americans suffered defeat in Canada, so did the British in the South.
The Spanish regular army, led by incompetent generals, suffered defeat after defeat.
The Spitfires suffered defeat last night to Hampshire, having dramatically overcome Essex on Wednesday evening.
In the following year (1164) he suffered defeat and was captured by the Muslims.
When he finally attempted to relieve embattled Florence, he suffered defeat at Gavinana (Aug. 3, 1530).
(Hofer's forces later suffered defeat, and the betrayed leader was executed in Mantua in 1810).
The army sent forth to meet Frederick suffered defeat in the Battle of Mollwitz in April 1741.
Although the Texan defenders suffered defeat, the siege at the Alamo became for Texans a symbol of heroic resistance.
In the middleweight division, Britain's Savannah Marshall suffered defeat in her opening-round fight, losing to European champion Nouchka Fontijn.
