Sentences with 'soundly'
Example sentences and phrases with the word soundly and other words derived from it.
• « Justinian sent a brilliant general, Belisarius, into Vandal-controlled North Africa in 533 with a fairly small force of soldiers and cavalry, and within a year Belisarius soundly defeated the Vandal army and retook North Africa for the empire. »
• « It sailed in 1588, but was soundly defeated by a smaller English fleet in a naval battle in the English Channel. »
• « The French period of the conflict reached its climax in 1954 when the French were soundly defeated at Dien Bien Phu, a French stronghold that was overwhelmed by the Viet Minh. The French withdrew, leaving Vietnam divided between the communists in the north and a corrupt but anti-communist force in the south supported by the United States. »
• « No one would ever know the contents of these burnt letters, and those who wrote them in a moment of weakness could now sleep soundly. »