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 Anthony Hope
"Foreseeing that in the struggle against the Convention the Commune might be worsted, my husband arrested, and the house searched, I already have had the casket carried to the home of one of our friends."
From The Sword of Honor, volumes 1 & 2 or The Foundation of the French Republic, A Tale of The French Revolution by Eug?ne Sue
God is love, God is our Father, we are His children; therefore the darkest clouds will break, and though right be worsted, wrong shall not triumph.
From The Optimist's Good Morning by Florence Hobart Perin
That would inevitably mean direct conflict in which she was sure to be worsted.
From A Woman's Burden by Fergus Hume
