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

He realised that in any passage of arms with these youths he must be worsted, as she apparently was oblivious of any harm being done.

From The Undying Past by Sudermann, Hermann

How certain to be worsted in an argument with an accomplished naturalist who is a sceptic!

From The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences by Hitchcock, Edward

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

Moreover, Williams Cache, it was conceded, would in the end be worsted if the company and the cowmen together seriously undertook with men and unlimited money to clean it out.

From Whispering Smith by Wyeth, N. C. (Newell Convers)