8 sentences with 'triumph'
Example sentences and phrases with the word triumph and other words derived from it.
• « The Model A was a triumph. It incorporated all the important improvements of the popular automobile of the time; and, at $495, it was more than $100 cheaper than the equivalent General Motors models. »
• « There was no greater glory for young sportsmen than to triumph in one of the Olympic Games' contests: the greatest poets sang the praises of this feat. »
• « Darius I captured his moment of triumph in a huge image carved into a rock face (the 'Behistun Inscription') that depicts his victory over the lesser kings and traces his royal lineage to a shared ancestor with Cyrus the Great. »
• « Zoroaster claimed that Ahura Mazda was the chief god and would ultimately triumph in the battle against evil, but explained the existence of evil in the world as a result of the struggle against the evil Ahriman. »
• « Because the Greeks saw the Persian War conflict in terms of the triumph of true Greek civilisation over barbarian tyranny, and the surviving historical sources are told exclusively from the Greek perspective, this bias has managed to endure to the present day. »
• « The most frequently studied period of Greek history is the 'Classical Age', the time between the triumph of the Greek coalition against Persia in 479 BC and the conquest of Greece by the Macedonian king Philip II (father of Alexander the Great) in 338 BC. »