Peter Green describes this defeat as "a crippling and costly defeat".

This victory was soon followed by a costly defeat.

In this campaign, as with those that followed in 612, 613, and 614, Sui met with costly defeat.

That failure doomed America to its costly and tragic defeat in Vietnam.

Her cause, whatever it was, had taken a costly defeat.

It had been a costly defeat, and it might be costlier still for him once the Kremlin started seeking a scapegoat.

But the entire drug war, America's most costly defeat since Vietnam, has been in good faith.

We delivered a costly defeat to him not long ago.

There were other breakdowns that occurred earlier in the game that played huge roles in the costly defeat.

Instead, it became the scene of a humiliating and costly defeat for Russian forces.