pyrrhic victoryin a sentence
- This was a Pyrrhic victory.† (source)
- GEORGE: (A Pyrrhic victory) Everything in its place, Martha …. everything in its own good time.† (source)
- You pick a set-up, or else win a Pyrrhic victory, or you're wrecked and ruined—you're a ghostly echo from a broken wall.† (source)
- Except that chastity only apparently triumphed, its victory was a Pyrrhic victory, because the demands of love could not be fettered, or coerced; suppressed love was not dead, it continued to live on in the dark, secret depths, straining for fulfillment—and broke the bands of chastity and reappeared, though in transmuted, unrecognizable form.† (source)