Sentences with 'trumped'

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

« In these circumstances, defence almost always trumped attack, making actual conquest of foreign cities very difficult, if not impossible, and thus, although cities existed for thousands of years (again, from about 3500 BC), there were still no empires. »
« When Anne Boleyn failed to produce a male heir in due course, Henry VIII trumped up charges of adultery and beheaded her. »
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