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

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

Now if we turned back and tried to recover our outfit, we should certainly have to fight the trappers, and probably we'd be worsted, for they outmatch us in weapons.

From Northern Diamonds by Pollock, Frank Lillie

They were sure Erkki, too, would be worsted, but he wasn’t.

From Mighty Mikko A Book of Finnish Fairy Tales and Folk Tales by Fillmore, Parker

It was the boy over again in his underground cellar, unwilling to be worsted in his “penny a shave,” striking out the bold line of a halfpenny one.

From The Boyhood of Great Inventors by Robertson, A. Fraser