Sentences with 'debacle'
Example sentences and phrases with the word debacle and other words derived from it.
• « The Spanish Armada was forced to limp around England, Scotland and Ireland trying to get back to Spain, eventually returning after losing half its ships and thousands of men. The debacle definitively ended Spain's attempt to invade England and removed the threat to the Anglican church. »
• « However, both the failed invasion of England in 1588 and the continuing debacle of the Dutch Revolt resulted in huge losses of wealth and prestige for the Spanish. »
• « The French retreat was a horrible debacle. The Russians attacked weak points in the French line and ambushed them at river crossings, disease ravaged the ranks of the malnourished French troops and the weather steadily worsened. »
• « The 1980s and 1990s saw a botched Israeli invasion of Lebanon, a continuing Soviet military debacle in Afghanistan and a full-scale war between the new Islamic Republic of Iran and its neighbour, Iraq. »