score a success
Example Sentences
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At only one point did the Spanish troops score a success.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome
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 Jules Lermina
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 Ned Wayburn
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 George Hamlin Fitch
