pyrrhic victory in English
[Pyr·rhic vic·to·ry || 'pɪrɪk]
victory accompanied by enormous losses (as was Pyrrhus' victory over the Romans in the 3rd century B.C.)
Use "pyrrhic victory" in a sentence
1. Sadly, it was a pyrrhic victory.
2. They get excited about their Pyrrhic victory.
3. It may prove to be a Pyrrhic victory.
4. The current proposal could prove pyrrhic victory, however.
5. This is a Pyrrhic victory for Basildon council.
6. It was a pyrrhic victory for both sides.
7. Inflation seemed like a pyrrhic victory, almost a tease.
8. This is why I say this is a Pyrrhic victory.
9. But man is not over, consider people are most pyrrhic victory.
10. Barack Obama signs health care bill amid warnings of Pyrrhic victory.
11. I know , just because it was a Pyrrhic victory for them.
12. Decisive victory Strategic victory Pyrrhic victory Joint Chiefs of Staff (2001).
13. My only point is that it has been a Pyrrhic victory.
14. The triumph of postmodernism, at least in the west, has been a Pyrrhic victory.
15. If this constituted defeat for Malcolm McLaren, it was, perhaps, only a pyrrhic victory for Richard Branson.
16. My only regret is that he didn't turn up at court to watch his Pyrrhic victory.
17. Our winning the opening game was a Pyrrhic victory, as our leading scorer was seriously injured.
18. I raised a stink about it and got my seat back, but it was a Pyrrhic victory.
19. A total win for one side in any negotiation is just wrong because it's almost always a pyrrhic victory.
20. But it was all too little to make me feel really good about my reporter's Pyrrhic victory of scoring a rare exclusive.
21. Federalists who sought integration by pursuing first a grandiose constitution and then, by hook or by crook, the Lisbon treaty have won a Pyrrhic victory.
22. "At this general assembly of Coxcombs, fops and the world's greatest dunces, Theobald, an unsuccessful writer, is crowned 'Chief of the Dunces'." Fame Ndongo's Pyrrhic Victory; Peterkins Manyong; The Post (Buea, Cameroon); Jan 16, 2007