Sentences with 'undo'

Example sentences and phrases with the word undo and other words derived from it.

« After his victories, King Pyrrhus made a comment that "one more victory of this kind will undo me", which led to the phrase "Pyrrhic victory", meaning a temporary victory that ultimately means defeat, or winning the battle but losing the war. »
« In a series of meetings known as the Congress of Vienna, Britain, Russia, Prussia and Austria met in the Austrian capital of Vienna to try to rebuild European order. What they could not do, however, was to completely undo Napoleon's entire legacy, and so the course of European (and soon world) history was changed by a single man from Corsica. »
« Therefore, after Napoleon's defeat, there had to be a reckoning. Only the most stubborn or the most noble monarch thought it possible to completely undo the Revolution and its effects, but there was a shared desire among the traditional elites to restore stability and order based on the political system that had worked in the past. »

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