6 sentences with 'comment'
Example sentences and phrases with the word comment 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. »
• « One prominent historian, much later, noted that 1848 was the year in which European history (specifically German history, though the comment was often applied to the whole revolutionary enterprise) "reached its turning point and did not turn back". However, this is not entirely true. »
• « By 1917, both sides had been penned in for three years, and soldiers on both sides were known to comment that in the end only the dead would escape from the trenches. »