VICTOR in a Sentence
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25 example sentences for VICTOR, such as:
1. To the victor go the spoils.
2. Clinton was victor of today's game.
3. The conquered territories were portioned out among the victors.
4. While the conquered were still, sullen, and dejected, the victors triumphed.
5. Though it looked as though there was a victor, the internecine battle benefited no one.
2. Clinton was victor of today's game.
3. The conquered territories were portioned out among the victors.
4. While the conquered were still, sullen, and dejected, the victors triumphed.
5. Though it looked as though there was a victor, the internecine battle benefited no one.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of VICTOR
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victor
n. a combatant who is able to defeat rivals
n. the contestant who wins the contest
Classic Sentence: (18 in 2 pages)
1 The royal policy had long been to weaken, by every means, legal or illegal, the strength of a part of the population which was justly considered as nourishing the most inveterate antipathy to their victor.
2 From the Disinherited Knight," said Gurth, "victor in this day's tournament.
3 Through a field slippery with blood, and encumbered with broken armour and the bodies of slain and wounded horses, the marshals of the lists again conducted the victor to the foot of Prince John's throne.
4 And since to conquer both, whether singly or together, was impossible, it was to be desired that the one should overthrow the other, after which the Church with her friends might fall upon the victor.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXII.
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXII.
5 Antiochus refusing these terms, fought and was defeated, and again sent envoys to Scipio, enjoining them to accept whatever conditions the victor might be pleased to impose.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XXXI.
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XXXI.
6 Victories after all are never so complete that the victor must not show some regard, especially to justice.
The Prince By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context Highlight In CHAPTER XXI — HOW A PRINCE SHOULD CONDUCT HIMSELF SO AS T...
Context Highlight In CHAPTER XXI — HOW A PRINCE SHOULD CONDUCT HIMSELF SO AS T...
7 Bonaparte victor at Waterloo; that does not come within the law of the nineteenth century.
8 It seems a victor; this dead body is a conqueror.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE
9 After tilts with him from which she seldom emerged the victor she vowed he was impossible, ill-bred and no gentleman and she would have nothing more to do with him.
10 While the conquered were still, sullen, and dejected, the victors triumphed.
11 The horns of the victors sounded merry and cheerful flourishes, until the last laggard of the camp was at his post; but the instant the British fifes had blown their shrill signal, they became mute.
12 Their plaintive and terrific cry, which was intended to represent equally the wailings of the dead and the triumph to the victors, had entirely ceased.
13 The shouts of the multitude, together with the acclamations of the heralds, and the clangour of the trumpets, announced the triumph of the victors and the defeat of the vanquished.
14 The rear rank of each party advanced at a slower pace to sustain the defeated, and follow up the success of the victors of their party.
15 The victors, assembling in large bands, gazed with wonder, not unmixed with fear, upon the flames, in which their own ranks and arms glanced dusky red.
Example Sentence:
1 Clinton was victor of today's game.
2 Though it looked as though there was a victor, the internecine battle benefited no one.
3 At the peace conference, the defeated country promised to pay reparation to the victor.
4 One may overcome a thousand men in battle, but he who conquers himself is the greatest victor.
5 In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers.
6 To the victor go the spoils.
7 The conquered territories were portioned out among the victors.