Sentence examples for trounced at from inspiring English sources

Lenin's motivations was uncomplicated: his party had been trounced at the polls.

Disney's usually bankable summer cartoon this year it's "Atlantis: The Lost Empire"—has been trounced at the box office by DreamWorks' "Shrek".

The two other geniuses of the documentary's title are, of course, Charles Chaplin and Buster Keaton, both of whom Lloyd trounced at the box office in the '20s.

Meanwhile, I comfort myself with the thought that in every free, fair election since the formation of Pakistan, religious hardliners have been trounced at the ballot box.

Mr Obama, though, has to share some of the credit for Ohio's solid recovery with John Kasich, the hyper-energetic Republican governor elected in 2010 in elections that saw Democrats trounced at every level.

The man who was most reluctant to accept the Lancaster House agreement, Mr Mugabe, has triumphed from it, and Bishop Muzorewa, the ex-prime minister whose desire for peace made the settlement possible, has been trounced at the polls.

Panthers, 27-24 ARIZONA (2-4) AT DALLAS (2-4) After being trounced last week at home by 33-14 by Philadelphia, some of the Cardinals described themselves as "garbage".

He was interested in everything political and also loved sport, especially rugby league, horse racing and snooker (at which he regularly trounced friends at Labour party conferences).

Opinion polls suggest that with Mr Sharon at its helm, Kadima would have trounced Likud at the election in March.

Last night, for example, shortly after the Anaheim Angels trounced Boston at Fenway Park, the Texas Rangers edged the Yankees, 5-4, at Yankee Stadium when Rafael Palmeiro slammed a tie-breaking home run off Denny Neagle to open the eighth inning.

Newcomers Gibraltar, who were trounced 7-0 at home by Poland last month, are unlikely to prove as troublesome at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin on 11 October as the Georgians on their own patch.