Sentence example with the word 'pyrrhic'

pyrrhic

accent, arsis, chloriambus, dimeter, feminine caesura, iambic, measured, molossus, proceleusmatic, sprung rhythm, tribrach

Definition adj. of or relating to a war dance of ancient Greece

Last update: October 17, 2015

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To all appearances the victory of the papacy was decisive: but it was a Pyrrhic victory, as events were quickly to prove.   [Please select]

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You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet; Where is the Pyrrhic phalanx gone.   [Please select]

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Achmet's pyrrhic triumph over Candia in 1669 was followed in 1683 by his brother Mustapha's disastrous discomfiture before the walls of Vienna, and these two sieges marked the turn of the Ottoman tide.   [Please select]

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