Sentence examples for triumphant underdog from inspiring English sources
Who doesn't like a triumphant underdog?
"The triumphant underdog," Mr. Nichols says, nodding toward the wall.
Explosions in the Sky seems especially well poised to work with filmmakers interested in profound stories about triumphant underdogs.
It's hard to believe, but had the Rangers won that penalty shootout in Philadelphia on the last day of the season, they could just as easily have been one of the triumphant underdogs.
For Mets fans, the 1969 Mets were not just talented ballplayers who won the World Series; they were gods, the triumphant underdogs for a war-weary country looking for miracles.
In less than five seconds, we went from trying to feel better about ourselves by looking down on her to identifying with her as an underdog triumphant.
My second hockey entry, Miracle (2004), transcends a familiar underdog team formula to vividly recreate a triumphant moment in Olympic history: the 1980 USA team's upset victory over the more seasoned USSR squad, who'd won the Gold Medal handily in the last four Olympic Games.
Instead, plucky old City – the club Alex Ferguson once dubbed "noisy neighbours", and who, according to tradition, are often still treated like the lovable underdog of the two sides – were confounded by three second-half goals from United, un-spinning their triumphant narrative as fast as they had written it.
I was feeling triumphant.
