score a success
Example Sentences
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At only one point did the Spanish troops score a success.
From Time Magazine Archive
This book, with its wealth of metaphor, opened the door for Meredith, but he did not score a success until he wrote The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, two years later.
From Modern English Books of Power by Fitch, George Hamlin
It seems to me," said the tenor, "that if you could write an opera round an interesting love story, you would score a success.
From Paul Kelver, a Novel by Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)
I can take a crowd of professionals or amateurs and place them before me in a semi-circle, seated; get them to read a play for me and immediately pick those who will score a success.
From The Art of Stage Dancing The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession by Wayburn, Ned
No, my friends, if I am bound by marriage ties, I authorize you both to hunt on my ground, and it will give me pleasure if you score a success.
From The Son of Monte-Cristo, Volume II by Lermina, Jules
