How to Use victor in a Sentence

victor

noun
  • In the end, hail to the victors felt like more than a song.
    Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Jan. 2024
  • In the end, Chester edged out Olesen as the victor of the battle.
    USA TODAY, 19 Mar. 2024
  • That’s 11 times more than the $9 million spent by the victor, Karen Bass.
    Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2022
  • The rub isn’t that no one victor came out on top; this isn’t Highlander.
    Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 26 Dec. 2022
  • Each kid back in the 1930s carried a bag, and the victor walked away with a new marble or two.
    Hanna Krueger, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Oct. 2022
  • Now guests are caught in the middle of their battle and are forced to choose a path and a victor.
    Eve Chen, USA TODAY, 28 July 2023
  • The ship is anchor’d safe and sound, its voyage closed and done, / From fearful trip the victor ship comes in with !
    cleveland, 4 July 2022
  • But for tighter races, the surge of mail-in votes means voters could wait days for a victor to be named.
    Karina Elwood, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2022
  • But in the past four years, a recurring victor has arisen: A24.
    Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 28 Oct. 2022
  • Tuesday’s game is a winner-take-all match, where the victor will proceed to the Round of 16 in Qatar.
    Chris Morris, Fortune, 29 Nov. 2022
  • But in the end, Tommy found himself as the clear victor in this battle.
    Breanna Bell, Variety, 11 Nov. 2023
  • State law called for the flip of a coin to determine the ultimate victor.
    Susan Haigh, Hartford Courant, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Jamaica held on for the draw, and the players jumped around like victors; the French filed down the tunnel and never came back out.
    Naaman Zhou, The New Yorker, 28 July 2023
  • And to the victor goes…some pretty anemic bragging rights.
    Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 24 Aug. 2022
  • The official leaned down on the mat, banged the floor three times, and declared Nakajima the victor.
    Alyson Krueger Martina Tuaty, New York Times, 12 Dec. 2023
  • These aren't always the easiest flowers to grow and keep disease-free, but to the victor go the spoils.
    Erynn Hassinger, Country Living, 22 Apr. 2023
  • More than eight months later, he was declared the victor.
    Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 19 Aug. 2023
  • The historic moment ended with the home team being crowned the victors and a final score of 3-0.
    Clare Fisher, Peoplemag, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Japan, the class of the tournament so far, dispatched Norway, 3-1, to earn a date with the US-Sweden victor.
    John Powers, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Aug. 2023
  • In the third installment, Spinosaurus and a juvenile T. rex meet in a battle royale in which Spinosaurus is the victor.
    Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 24 June 2023
  • While both parties were found to have defamed the other, Depp walked away the victor in the court of public opinion.
    Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 11 Sep. 2023
  • No matter which side prevails, the true victor in any war is the person selling weapons to both sides.
    Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2022
  • And this weekend’s eventual victor may be able to reign supreme with even less.
    Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 30 Aug. 2022
  • For the fifth time in four years, Israelis went to the polls, and once again, no clear victor immediately emerged.
    Joseph Krauss, ajc, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Gauff had found a way to impose herself, had got one last ball back enough times in a match of consequence to come away the victor.
    Gerald Marzorati, The New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2023
  • The victor of this sprawling legal war so far is unclear.
    BostonGlobe.com, 22 Oct. 2022
  • Back then, the 2006 Lebanon-Israel war ended with no clear victor or vanquished.
    Tamara Qiblawi, CNN, 16 Oct. 2023
  • As the cliché goes, history is always written by the victors.
    WIRED, 15 Sep. 2023
  • That is because Georgia law requires the victor to win 50 percent of the vote on Election Day.
    Jonathan Weisman, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2022
  • Often, history is told by the victor, not the oppressed.
    Morgan Mercer, Fortune, 28 Nov. 2023

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