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How to use victor in a sentence

37 example sentences · noun

Victor means the winner in a fight or contest. Example: “The victor is led up to the balei and the crowd surges up to hear the result.”

Examples of victor by meaning

nounThe winner in a fight or contest.

  • City were also the victors on that occasion 56 years ago, winning 5-0, but this visit was portrayed as a measure of their progress against the 19-time champions.2011 October 23, Phil McNulty, “Man Utd 1 - 6 Man City”, in BBC Sport

More sentences with victor

  • The victor is led up to the balei and the crowd surges up to hear the result.From the entry balei
  • Victor pared some apples in preparation to make a tart.From the entry pare
  • To the victor belong the spoils.From the entry spoils
  • For me, the victor is the film adaption, which is a masterpiece of one man's conversion.2020 January 16, Patrick Ullmer, “The Stack-Up: 'The Hunter'”, in The Spectrum, North Dakota State University, page 7. From the entry kill it with fire
  • Victor finished his report to us with a big grin on his face.2019, Don McLean, “How to Play”, in The Game, Victoria, B.C.: FriesenPress, →ISBN, page 84. From the entry adiós
  • Victor uses the Kissing Face with Heart emoji as a pragmatic particle.2018 May 30, Michelle A. McSweeney, The Pragmatics of Text Messaging: Making Meaning in Messages, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, unnumbered page. From the entry emoji sequence
  • This is the age of the Cry-Bully, a hideous hybrid of victim and victor, weeper and walloper.2015 April 21, Julie Burchill, “Meet the Cry-Bully: a hideous hybrid of victim and victor”, in The Spectator. From the entry pushmi-pullyu
  • Victor, his cousinettes and I spent a quiet night roaming Sai Gon.2014, Robert Downs, Pasture to Paddy: A Novel, →ISBN, page 203. From the entry cousinette
  • Victor and I are having a huge argument about whether or not to feed the foxen.2012 April 17, Jenny Lawson, Let's Pretend This Never Happened, →ISBN. From the entry -en
  • Victor says yes, because they're adorable and— according to the neighbors—are quite tame.2012 April 17, Jenny Lawson, Let's Pretend This Never Happened, →ISBN. From the entry -en
  • Victor Adler was born in a small Moravian town on the Galician border.2006, Shulamit Ṿolḳov, Germans, Jews, and Antisemites: Trials in Emancipation, page 272. From the entry Galician
  • Victor listened and smiled, teased and cat-and-moused me, but finally agreed to grounding my folly-in-the-air.1979, Diana Cooper, Autobiography, page 560. From the entry cat-and-mouse
  • Victor ads, except that he is shorter and even more bulldoggishly muscular.1978, David Galloway, A Family Album, London: John Calder, →ISBN, page 36. From the entry bulldoggishly
  • It's an unusual situation, an unusual program because the victor hardly ever helps the vanquished to recover.1964, Harry S. Truman, 3:12 from the start, in MP2002-479 Former President Truman Recalls Negotiating With DeGaulle and France after WWII…. From the entry vanquished
  • Japan's greatest previous naval hero, victor of Tsushima, humiliator of the Russians.1941 December 22, “Yamamoto v. the Dragon”, in Time. From the entry humiliator
  • Victor Frankenstein.” “Never heard of him.” “Right.”2024 October 21, Paul Simms, “The Return of Jerry” (4:09 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 6, episode 1, spoken by…. From the entry etcetera
  • Victor, the director of the Laboratory on International Law and Regulation at the University of California, San Diego.2020 September 13, Michael D. Shear, Coral Davenport, “In Visiting a Charred California, Trump Confronts a Scientific Reality He Denies”…. From the entry federalwide
  • In the spear-throwing competition, I was the victor, outhurling Phyleus.2017, David Bruce, Homer's Iliad: A Retelling in Prose, page 341. From the entry outhurl
  • The victors held the key to the Ladysmith lock.2012, William Manchester, Paul Reid, The Last Lion Box Set: Winston Spencer Churchill, 1874 - 1965, Little, Brown, →ISBN. From the entry kop
  • Yet the caracole had struggled against cold steel throughout the 16th century and had come off the victor.2003, William P. Guthrie, The later Thirty Years War. From the entry cold steel
  • Herakles staged a race for his brothers, the Kouretes, and crowned the victor with a branch of wild olive.2001, Edward Seldon Sears, Running Through the Ages, McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 26. From the entry stadion
  • Victor stopped in the middle of an arpeggio.1956, Delano Ames, chapter 14, in Crime out of Mind. From the entry chord
  • None will emerge the victor from this holocaust.1953 December 22, Talbot Jennings, Jan Lustig, Noel Langley, Knights of the Round Table. From the entry holocaust
  • Victor, insensitive to this, went prattling on.1952, Daphne Du Maurier, “Monte Verità”, in The Apple Tree. From the entry prattle
  • Victor, please, don't go to the underground meeting tonight.1942, Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Howard Koch, Casablanca, spoken by Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman). From the entry underground
  • Victor, who wears glasses herself on occasion, scoffs at the idea of hiding the be-glassed visage under a brimmed hat.1939 November 12, Isabella Taves, “Glamour with Glasses”, in The Detroit Free Press, 109th year, number 192, part three, page 10. From the entry be-glassed
  • Contempt is victors’ ready, heady prerogative.2026 February 16, Frank Bruni, “Pam Bondi and the MAGA Brand of Insult Politics”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry comity
  • For the first eight years of the Tetris Championship Series, the eventual victor used a technique known as delayed auto shift, or "DAS."2023 December 1, Evelynn Kersting, “GAMES AND TIME”, in University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, archived from the original on 07 Jun 2025, page…. From the entry auto
  • In this game, each temporary victor rascalizes his predecessor and enthrones himself, and this is just what has occurred with Velikovsky's critics.2015, Charles Ginenthal, Stephen J. Gould & Immanuel Velikovsky. From the entry rascalize
  • Victor sat on a rock and tried to strip off his waders, his body shaking so much that he couldn't get a decent grip.2006, William Scarborough, Baked Alaskan. From the entry strip off
  • Germany had made compensation for every contribution by a counter payment, although she could have extorted them by force as the due of the victor.1946, Department of State Bulletin - Volume 15, page 198. From the entry counter payment
  • Victor told me that a group of Mixes had set up a large workshop near the city of Oaxaca, where they made wood carvings using a variety of machines.2010 January 1, Michael Chibnik, Crafting Tradition: The Making and Marketing of Oaxacan Wood Carvings, University of Texas Press, →ISBN…. From the entry mixe
  • Victor was spot on, of course; in fact, I have often been tempted to seek him out when I have been plagued by diseases of the heart.1995, Nick Hornby, High Fidelity, London: Victor Gollancz, →ISBN, page 22. From the entry tattoo
  • In Massachusetts, the Kennedy family, unafraid of the slings and arrows from lesser breeds, proudly ran its youngest son through a convention gauntlet, and saw him emerge the victor.1962 June 15, “Politics: Passion, Pageantry & Platform”, in Time, volume LXXIX, number 24, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page…. From the entry slings and arrows
  • It is the old problem of what a victor is to do with the vanquished, if the latter is to gain the bare minimum of economic independence.1948, D. B. Copland, “United States Policy in China,”, in Pacific Affairs, volume 21, number 4, page 344. From the entry bare minimum
  • Huwawa is slain; the victors triumph, but the victory is to be a pyrrhic one for Gilgamesh, for the gods have met in counsel and decreed that Enkidu should die.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London…. From the entry pyrrhic

Meaning of victor

  1. noun The winner in a fight or contest.

Full definition of victor

Questions about victor in a sentence

How do you use victor in a sentence?
Victor is used as a noun. For example: “The victor is led up to the balei and the crowd surges up to hear the result.”
What is a short sentence with victor?
“Contempt is victors’ ready, heady prerogative.”
What does victor mean?
Victor means the winner in a fight or contest.

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