Sentence examples for were defeating from inspiring English sources
verb
To overcome in battle or contest.
- Wellington defeated Napoleon at Waterloo.
By the 1960s, however, even Hungarian, Polish, Japanese, Cuban, and Bulgarian teams were defeating Hoffman's men.
We were defeating ourselves on Wednesday, before we even had the chance to play the game".
And while they were not prepared for the Republican line, unveiled well before the crucial vote, that Democrats were defeating the rule because they were fundamentally opposed to reform, they acknowledged that they knew getting another chance would be difficult.
Some of those viewers were intent on watching the screen where the Giants were defeating the Redskins, 23-9, while others stared at the screen where the Browns were surprising the Chargers, 20-16.
If Nat, Felix and George believed that they were defeating the forces of evil for ever, Anthony Horowitz's Power of Five crusaders know that the struggle against the Old Ones and their leader, Chaos, has lasted 10,000 years.
Mr. McAuliffe also said that with the elections approaching, his top priorities were defeating Gov. Jeb Bush in Florida and helping Senator Jean Carnahan, Democrat of Missouri, defend her seat.
The measures were defeated.
Predictably, they were defeated.
A record 58 percent were defeated.
