spoils

Example Sentences

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Spoils of victory: Kevin Demoff, the Rams’ chief operating officer, attended practice wearing a Denver Nuggets NBA championship cap.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 13, 2023

Are all of Henry James’s books as hopelessly bad as “The Spoils of Poynton”?

From New York Times • Oct. 21, 2021

He spent 18 months turning Ridley’s Spoils of War screenplay—which he claims he “didn’t even really read”—into Three Kings.

From Slate • Apr. 16, 2019

After the “dragon-induced Armageddon” of last week’s Game of Thrones episode, “The Spoils of War,” it was inevitable that the follow-up was going to be comparatively smaller and more down to earth.

From The Verge • Aug. 14, 2017

Spoils of war were often left behind when a monster dissolved—sometimes a tooth, or a weapon, or even the monster’s entire head.

From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan