be worsted

Example Sentences

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But to Propagandist Franklin-Bouillion logic is something which can always be worsted by appeals to passion.

From Time Magazine Archive

But to see him adoring this other—that was to be worsted on the merits—not merely to be impossible, but to be undesired.

From Second String by Hope, Anthony

She was a lady stronger than her husband;—stronger in this, that she never allowed herself to be worsted in any encounter.

From Marion Fay by Trollope, Anthony

And Cousin Park, knowing herself to be worsted, sighed a great, heaving sigh and looked sadly at the Major's portrait, as though if he had been alive he would have protected her.

From At Boarding School with the Tucker Twins by Speed, Nell

The aim seems to be to put Sigel and his purposely-reduced and disorganized forces in such a condition and position that he may be worsted or destroyed by the enemy.

From Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 by De Gurowski, Adam G., count