VICTORIOUS in a Sentence

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250 example sentences for VICTORIOUS, such as:
1. They diplomatized in order to win victory.
2. We must fight this battle through to victory.
3. Our team was victorious over theirs in the contest.
4. Even if the other win others, our attitude is victory.
5. We have fought scores of battles in order to win victory.
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 Meanings and Examples of VICTORIOUS
victorious
 a.  experiencing triumph
 a.  having won
Classic Sentence: (170 in 12 pages)
1  It was agreed between Tullus king of Rome, and Metius king of Alba, that the nation whose champions were victorious in combat should rule over the other.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXII.
2  For whereas the Romans were always victorious under the consuls, under the decemvirs they were always defeated.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XLIII.
3  He who is impoverished by his wars, even should he come off victorious, can add nothing to his strength, since he spends more than he gains, as the Venetians and Florentines have done.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIX.
4  For though Brutus was victorious with his wing of the army Cassius, whose wing was beaten, believed the entire army to be defeated, and under this belief gave way to despair and slew himself.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XVIII.
5  For on the false report of a victory they crossed the Po, and had they only advanced a little further must have been made prisoners by the victorious French.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XVIII.
6  For as each supposed the other to be victorious, neither thought much of leaving their camp to be plundered by the enemy.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XVIII.
7  Quintius, on the contrary, by kindly and humane treatment, kept his men obedient and returned victorious to Rome.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XIX.
8  To insure an army being victorious in battle you must inspire it with the conviction that it is certain to prevail.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XXXIII.
9  Nor do Teucrians alone pay forfeit of their blood; once and again valour returns even in conquered hearts, and the victorious Grecians fall.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SECOND
10  After them beautiful Aventinus, born of beautiful Hercules, displays on the sward his palm-crowned chariot and victorious horses, and carries on his shield his father's device, the hundred snakes of the Hydra's serpent-wreath.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SEVENTH
11  The victorious Rutulians, with their spoils and the plunder regained, bore dead Volscens weeping to the camp.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK NINTH
12  And now flying Rumour, harbinger of the heavy woe, fills Evander and Evander's house and city with the same voice that but now told of Pallas victorious over Latium.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK ELEVENTH
13  Where the maiden darts furious amid the ranks, there Arruns slips up and silently tracks her footsteps; where she returns victorious and retires from amid the enemy, there he stealthily bends his rapid reins.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK ELEVENTH
14  Her aunt's words had told her nothing new; but they had revived the vision of Bertha Dorset, smiling, flattered, victorious, holding her up to ridicule by insinuations intelligible to every member of their little group.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
15  He was not always victorious, but then defeat did not mean annihilation, and need not break his spirit.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
Example Sentence: (80 in 6 pages)
1  The revolution ended when the victorious rebel general succeeded in his attempt to usurp the throne.
2  Let's face it, their idol is willing to sign a bill that gives one aspirin to each American and just call it a victorious health care reform law!
3  His belief that the forces fighting evil in the world can be victorious was a hard-won belief in his time.
4  Osborne emerged victorious after the second round of voting.
5  Our team was victorious over theirs in the contest.
6  I can still see Castro riding into Havana at the head of his ragtag but victorious army.
7  Taylor wants a convincing victory to erase doubts about his team's ability to reach the World Cup finals.
8  Even if the other win others, our attitude is victory.
9  Union leaders are heading for victory in their battle over workplace rights.
10  We must fight this battle through to victory.
11  His victory was seen as payback for all the hard work he'd put in during training.
12  The work of the intelligence services was crucially important to victory in the war.
13  They diplomatized in order to win victory.
14  We have fought scores of battles in order to win victory.
15  Real's victory keeps them five points behind the pacesetters, Barcelona.