VICTORY in a Sentence

Learn VICTORY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
250 example sentences for VICTORY, such as:
1. They diplomatized in order to win victory.
2. In victory or defeat, they were their boys.
3. We shouldn't rule out a Democrat victory yet.
4. We must fight this battle through to victory.
5. Confidence in ultimate victory never wavered.
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 Meanings and Examples of VICTORY
victory
 n.  a successful ending of a struggle or contest
Classic Sentence: (170 in 12 pages)
1  It was high tide of devotion and pride in their hearts, high tide of the Confederacy, for final victory was at hand.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
2  The war went on, successfully for the most part, but people had stopped saying "One more victory and the war is over," just as they had stopped saying the Yankees were cowards.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
3  It was obvious to all now that the Yankees were far from cowardly and that it would take more than one victory to conquer them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
4  The Confederacy had scored a smashing victory, at Fredericksburg and the Yankee dead and wounded were counted in the thousands.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
5  May came and the Confederacy won another great victory at Chancellorsville.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
6  The news reached Atlanta almost simultaneously with the news of the victory at Chancellorsville, and the town fairly rocked with exultation and with laughter.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
7  Chancellorsville might be a more important victory but the capture of Streight's raiders made the Yankees positively ridiculous.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
8  One more victory and the war would be over, and then Darcy Meade could have all the boots he wanted, and the boys would come marching home and everybody would be happy again.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
9  Atlanta and its railroads had played a big part in making Chickamauga a great victory for the South.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
10  It was the greatest feat of the war, and Atlanta took pride and personal satisfaction in the thought that its railroads had made the victory possible.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
11  Grant was a butcher who did not care how many men he slaughtered for a victory, but victory he would have.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
12  Confidence in ultimate victory never wavered.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
13  In victory or defeat, they were their boys.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
14  The crowd cheered the troops as they would have cheered them in victory.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
15  Well, she'd have to bear it meekly, much as she disliked it, if she expected to snatch victory from this debacle.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
Example Sentence: (80 in 6 pages)
1  Taylor wants a convincing victory to erase doubts about his team's ability to reach the World Cup finals.
2  Even if the other win others, our attitude is victory.
3  Union leaders are heading for victory in their battle over workplace rights.
4  We must fight this battle through to victory.
5  His victory was seen as payback for all the hard work he'd put in during training.
6  The work of the intelligence services was crucially important to victory in the war.
7  They diplomatized in order to win victory.
8  We have fought scores of battles in order to win victory.
9  Real's victory keeps them five points behind the pacesetters, Barcelona.
10  The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
11  Her Olimpic experience gave her a big advantage over the other contestants for the final victory.
12  Their victory was largely a result of their brilliantly orchestrated election campaign.
13  A person's character isn't determined by how he or she enjoys victory, but rather how he or she endures defeat.
14  On current / present form the party is heading for another election victory.
15  We shouldn't rule out a Democrat victory yet.