For some reason I felt a need to win a pyrrhic victory.
He won what was described as a Pyrrhic victory by 308 to 188.
This was if anything a Pyrrhic victory for both states.
Others say it was not a military failure but a Pyrrhic victory.
He knows, of course, that this is perhaps a Pyrrhic victory.
The battle was a pyrrhic victory for the British, however.
But it will probably prove to be a Pyrrhic victory.
It could also be a Pyrrhic victory for the writers.
This might well be a Pyrrhic victory, but we shall have to wait and see.
The higher education portfolio, however, was something of a pyrrhic victory.