Sentence examples for usually defeated from inspiring English sources

We regularly attempt moonlight swims – but are usually defeated by the great British weather.

Still, in past elections, the preferred candidates for the village board among Latino voters were usually defeated.

At most tables North-South landed in four hearts and were usually defeated by two tricks, sometimes doubled.

As a rule, the war-crimes prosecutions of the past century were conducted by a group of states, acting collectively, against the (usually defeated) leaders of another state.

This view has been widely credited, though it is demonstrably false because Isis has repeatedly fought and usually defeated the Syrian army in eastern Syria.

The inferior side are usually defeated at least once in three matches – which could still happen – but the proof of England's superiority is at the moment simply lacking".

In fact, history suggests we don't usually defeat them and we nearly always end up talking to them.

Because – and here is the technological fact that underpins the social and political aspects of what has happened – a network can usually defeat a hierarchy.

(I am no sports fan, but I do understand the idea that one team usually defeats the other. I am on the team that can't afford the cool uniforms).

"Due to the remoteness of the area we are better able to use our advantages in fires — mortars, artillery, attack helicopters and close air support — to fight and usually defeat the enemy pretty decisively," he wrote.

I excitedly relay this news to Lorde, explaining that I'm tempted to view this as a parallel to the way in which pop eats, repeats and usually defeats itself, with special reference to how Ella – whose sparse, erudite pop nestles in charts alongside bumptious tripe espoused by party jam despots like Pitbull – has somehow changed the story.