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Example sentences for "trophy"

Lexicographically close words:
tropes; trophi; trophic; trophied; trophies; tropic; tropical; tropically; tropics; tropism
  1. Having accomplished this, he put spurs to his horse, and, galloping up to the front of the stand, he bent gracefully forward, and deposited the trophy at the feet of Catalina de Cruces!

  2. The Apache will find no trophy on their crowns.

  3. If a Pane, surely he would not have gone off without that great trophy which would have rendered him famous for life,--the scalp of the Waco chief?

  4. The pillars and roof were hung with the trophies of the campaign of Italy and the bust of Washington was placed under the trophy composed of the flags of Aboukir.

  5. For no one who could not pay right handsomely for the chance might hope to be guided to the range where such an unequalled trophy was to be won.

  6. To bring down such a magnificent prize, and to carry off such a trophy as that unmatched head and antlers, the greatest sportsmen of America would have begrudged no effort or expense.

  7. I have here an added trophy--a trophy which I may say is unique in golfing history!

  8. Wimpus Trophy is priceless, and more to be desired than diamonds or pearls.

  9. Twice we had retaliated by preventing them from retiring the Wimpus Trophy from competition; and now, with two winning years behind us and a third opportunity in sight, we talked and thought of nothing else.

  10. I take great pleasure, gentlemen," said the Bish after the uproar had subsided, "in presenting this unique trophy to one who now has a double distinction.

  11. Mr. Hemmingway puts up a new cup each year, the conditions of play being that the trophy shall go to the man making the best net score.

  12. We were practicing for the trophy sailboat race.

  13. My judgment is that Miss Barker has a right to retain the trophy until the final race.

  14. And it's an insult to Tate's Beach the way she flaunts the trophy aboard that cheap old ferryboat!

  15. I'll win that brass lantern trophy from Sally if it's the last act of my life.

  16. Someone could take the trophy by unlocking the padlock.

  17. It was conceited and selfish of me to display the trophy here.

  18. She was warned however, that the trophy would have to be returned later for use in court as evidence against Adam Glowershick.

  19. Well, Mr. Gandiss, it looks as if the Barkers will keep the trophy another year!

  20. Then two seasons ago, it was offered as a trophy in the annual Hat Island sailboat race held here.

  21. He probably came aboard for money, and unable to get into the safe, took the trophy for meanness.

  22. I can't replace the trophy for there's no other like it.

  23. Even more astonishing was the information that the trophy taken from the River Queen also was somewhere in the house.

  24. However, he was away much of the time, supervising the work of repairing and getting the Spindrift into condition for the coming trophy race.

  25. For a while Edessa had braved the Persian assaults; but the chosen city, the spouse of Christ, was involved in the common ruin; and his divine resemblance became the slave and trophy of the infidels.

  26. After the sack of Corinth, Athens, and Thebes, his lieutenant embarked with a captive train of weavers and artificers of both sexes, a trophy glorious to their master, and disgraceful to the Greek emperor.

  27. Royal trophy and scoring a brilliant victory with 69 secs.

  28. His shield slipped off his arm, and dropped into the sea, and having been washed ashore, was picked up by the Athenians, who used it to adorn the trophy which they afterwards erected.

  29. The victorious crews of Phormio then returned to Naupactus, and set up a trophy at the place where they had been moored when this splendid rally was made, opposite to the temple of Apollo.

  30. This trophy is now in the Chapel of Chelsea Hospital.

  31. They had been sitting on a bench near Trophy Point, and one of them had been carelessly tinkling a mandolin.

  32. That evening, seated on one of the guns up by Trophy Point, was visible a solitary figure, looking about as lonely and wretched as a human being can.

  33. These give full illumination and a gay appearance to the spacious hall, in which the trophy rises to a height of eighty feet.

  34. The Oriental forms by far the larger portion of it, and has an imposing trophy in one of the four most advantageous positions in the building.

  35. After this environment we have small space for the trophy itself.

  36. That around the Canadian trophy is but a contribution to a general colonial collection near the focus of the British group, where the union jack waves above the united family.

  37. This bold monument death defies, Inscribed thus, 'To mirth here lies A trophy and a sacrifice'.

  38. Beside the grizzly stands the mountain sheep, or cimmaron, the most difficult to capture of all four-footed animals, whose gigantic curved horns are the best trophy of skill and enterprise that a hunter can bring home with him.

  39. These were designed from a grizzly which Mr. Kemeys fought and killed in the autumn of 1881 in the Rocky Mountains, and the mounted head of which grins upon the wall overhead, a grisly trophy indeed.

  40. In these sanguinary and protracted combats, Soult, with an expenditure of fifteen hundred men, gained a few miles of mountain and four disabled guns--a miserable trophy for such a waste of blood.

  41. They spent no more time at the horrible trophy house, for it contained such things as one might see in a nightmare.

  42. For answer the youths led the way to the trophy house and its hideous contents.

  43. I will tell you which trophy you most prize," it said.

  44. Now the grander trophy was that silver strip of the Dardanelles which men called "the Narrows," and the combatants were a pack of nations.

  45. Behind the Turk ran the silver Narrows, the splendid trophy of the present tourney.

  46. Athens itself had been destroyed; and while young Sophocles was dancing round the trophy at Salamis, the Acropolis was still a heap of blackened ruins.

  47. This was his expressive and figurative method of conveying to his warriors that he sought a more valuable trophy than the life of a child, and that he had resolved upon no less a scheme than the assault of the Hotuiti pa.

  48. To secure so eminent a scion of Ngai-Tahu aristocracy would be a trophy indeed; but Te Rauparaha knew that it was no ordinary task that he was contemplating.

  49. Amongst these was Te Haunga, the principal chief of the pa, who formed a specially valuable trophy in view of the purpose for which the raid had been organised.

  50. Philip then secured his trophy by slipping a noose of whipcord over its head, and tying it to his stick.

  51. In one of the marches of Constantine, he is reported to have seen with his own eyes the luminous trophy of the cross, placed above the meridian sun and inscribed with the following words: By This Conquer.

  52. Instead of exhibiting the vanquished king of the Alemanni, as a grateful spectacle to the cities of Gaul, he respectfully laid at the feet of the emperor this splendid trophy of his victory.

  53. Under the idea that his Majesty was still at table, they placed their dreadful trophy where it must be seen.

  54. I will keep it in remembrance of your courage, as well as a trophy of my skill in archery; notwithstanding, I fear good Cormac will lay claim to it, as it was hit with his own arrow.

  55. I see every other kind of trophy up there, but no lion," he added.

  56. He was mine--in a way that no stuffed trophy will ever be.

  57. He paused and looked up at the trophy heads lined up along the wall.

  58. He was therefore much dismayed at seeing Jason return, especially as he came unharmed and bearing so rich a trophy as the golden fleece.

  59. The august goddess of wisdom seemed to have taken a strange fancy to the Gorgon's head, so Perseus gave her this trophy of his victory, and she fixed it in the middle of her shield.


  60. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "trophy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.