Sentence examples for taking defeat from inspiring English sources

There's not taking "defeat" lying down, and there's complaining to Russian president Vladimir Putin about it on Twitter.

His spare hours are spent watching film – reviewing even the kneel-down plays at the end of a game: gauging opponents' body language to see who is taking defeat well, and who is handling it badly.

The Yankees players lamented the departure of Tim Raines last spring, feeling that his sense of humor, his easygoing nature and his high-pitched laugh would be missed because he managed to keep others from taking defeat and success too seriously.

Rush noted that he "seemed to be taking defeat a lot worse than some of the younger lads around me". Matteo, by contrast, said that, after the game, "the scene was one of total devastation" and Fowler says the party was "rather subdued".

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Hamilton took defeat badly.

He takes defeat badly, and always personally.

But how have his troops taken defeat?

"You take defeat as it comes," Federer said.

Who do we got?' " He can take defeat hard.

Kabila's rivals are unlikely to take defeat quietly.