How to Use conquest in a Sentence

conquest

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  • She was one of his many conquests.
  • Those battles and eventual conquest would open the door for Rome to rule the rest of the Western world for many centuries.
    — Clive Pursehouse, Outside Online, 21 Feb. 2023
  • The success of his plan does not hinge on overt conquest of neighboring states.
    — Loren Thompson, Forbes, 21 June 2022
  • The best way to avoid them would be to withdraw invading forces from a fizzling war of conquest.
    — Popular Mechanics, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Plus, the Targaryens had just shown the Seven Kingdoms the power of their dragons during the conquest.
    — Tracy Brownstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2022
  • Now Putin’s Plan B, the conquest of eastern and southern Ukraine, is teetering on the edge of failure as well.
    — Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2022
  • Despite putting the stone into the chair as a symbol of his conquest, Edward’s rule over Scotland was short-lived.
    — Victoria Murphy, Town & Country, 29 Apr. 2023
  • But Fanatics’ rise in the sports-card industry still reads like a tale of ruthless conquest.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Every nation in the world is one of conquest and revival into one or more nations.
    — Kayla Bartsch, National Review, 19 Oct. 2023
  • But the Kremlin’s main objective in the east is conquest, and Russian forces have been stymied by the Ukrainian defenders.
    — Matthew Mpoke Bigg, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Apr. 2023
  • The tiny desert kingdom played a key role in facilitating the Taliban’s conquest of Afghanistan last year.
    — Jonathan Schanzer, WSJ, 15 Aug. 2022
  • Leo Tolstoy, who was no fan of the French emperor, wondered why senseless bloodshed and conquest should be thought grand in a man.
    — Ridley Scott, WSJ, 7 Dec. 2023
  • But such rumors were long gone by the 1240s, when victims of the Mongol conquest feared that the apocalypse was playing out before their very eyes.
    — Nicholas Morton, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 July 2023
  • Arcel’s screen adaptation will be a gripping drama about the conquest of the Danish heath.
    — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Forsaking trade for conquest, Magellan attacked an island in the Philippines and was killed in the surf.
    — National Geographic, 11 Aug. 2022
  • The image of Mongols as brutes outlasted their conquests.
    — Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
  • The entire basin of the holy lake had been a site of pilgrimage long before the Spanish conquest, indeed long before the Incas themselves.
    — Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
  • The temples were demolished and the stones were repurposed after the Spanish conquest.
    — WIRED, 17 Sep. 2023
  • Eager to flaunt his conquest, Albie brings along Lucia to translate.
    — Donna Bowman, Chron, 4 Dec. 2022
  • Her seven-decade reign, longer than that of any other monarch of her realm stretching back to before the days of the Norman conquest, can be seen as its own Elizabethan age.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2022
  • Its conquest of the main city of al-Obeid was only thwarted by mass demonstrations by its residents.
    — Alex De Waal, Foreign Affairs, 18 Sep. 2023
  • The creativity of men, which is not creativity at all but a mode of conquest, disgusts him.
    — Rachel Cusk, Harper's Magazine, 10 Sep. 2023
  • The character is based on a historical figure of the same name who was renowned for his murderous conquests.
    — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2024
  • The moon’s harmonious connection to assertive Mars offers courage for a conquest.
    — USA TODAY, 12 June 2023
  • Some of those recipes are based upon recipes that were original to the Americas before the colonial conquest of the Europeans.
    — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Jan. 2024
  • The name Xinjiang was slapped on the Uyghur homeland in 1884, after its conquest by China’s last imperial dynasty.
    — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 15 July 2022
  • If optimism is the disposition of the victor, then what is the outlook of the victim or survivor of conquest and domination?
    — Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Hitler had promised conquest and Lebensraum; instead, Aryan zeal was muzzled, Aryan belief bludgeoned.
    — Cynthia Ozick, The Atlantic, 3 Aug. 2022
  • Picking up the book on a break from work or life can offer a bitesize escape, or drive a dagger into someone else's table and delve deep to plan your conquest as the future scourge of the Astral Sea!
    — Goldie Chan, Forbes, 14 Aug. 2022
  • With all of this Guinness World Record hoopla, and the blatant overstating of commercial personal conquests, has adventure tourism jumped the shark?
    — Jim Clash, Forbes, 17 Feb. 2024

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