How to Use conquest in a Sentence

conquest

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  • She was one of his many conquests.
  • Sticks feel like a reward for the conquest of traipsing through the woods.
    — Jennifer Nelson, Southern Living, 16 June 2021
  • Don’t be fooled by appearances, however, as a new romantic conquest may be less than ideal.
    — Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 1 June 2021
  • Christianity is coming, and the old ways are long gone, stomped under the boot of Roman conquest.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 8 Sep. 2024
  • The American conquest spelled doom for the Californios.
    — Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 June 2021
  • Friedman didn’t achieve this intellectual conquest alone.
    — Zachary D. Carter, The New Republic, 17 June 2021
  • Wth Marder seemingly set on conquest, Prince Jordy has his father murdered and mother kidnapped.
    — Ollie Barder, Forbes, 25 Sep. 2024
  • The conquest of Covid will stand as one of humanity’s great achievements and a hallmark of the American character.
    — Standish Fleming, Forbes, 29 June 2021
  • Vikings sailed European oceans and rivers for trading, raiding and territorial conquest.
    — Kyle Roderick, Forbes, 23 June 2021
  • In Australia, the high court backed a man who argued that his family’s centuries-long use of their land superseded the government’s colonial-era conquest.
    — New York Times, 17 June 2021
  • Since 1916, the automotive conquest of the mountain has been a goal of major automakers and small privateers alike.
    — Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 25 June 2021
  • The police had forcibly cleared the square and provided security for that rally, part of a parade to celebrate Israel’s conquest of east Jerusalem.
    — Joseph Krauss, Anchorage Daily News, 18 June 2021
  • One of the great governmental marvels of the past 40 years was the Federal Reserve's complete conquest of this malady.
    — Steve Chapman, Star Tribune, 14 June 2021
  • And on each of those 50 stars, stories of imperial conquest often designate the inhabitants of those lands as enemies and aggressors.
    — Pedro Rios, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 July 2021
  • The middle is the red of his bloody conquest, and the top, around his shoulders, has been stained a dirty black.
    — James Grebey, Vulture, 25 May 2024
  • The tour ends in the leafy main square where the handsome buildings of the Spanish conquest span whole city streets.
    — Claire Boobbyer, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Meanwhile, the conquest of the New World was very much an ad hoc and unplanned affair.
    — Razib Khan, National Review, 31 July 2021
  • No call out of centuries of British bloody conquest and plunder.
    — Omid Scobie, Harper's BAZAAR, 25 Mar. 2022
  • The very word 'conquest' was distasteful to him in this context.
    — CBS News, 15 Dec. 2021
  • 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
  • But France’s voting system stands a bit in the way of a far-right conquest in parliament.
    — Elaine Ganley, ajc, 25 Apr. 2022
  • 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
  • The Mapuches checked Spain’s conquest of Chile’s south for three centuries.
    — Emiliano Granada, Variety, 12 Nov. 2021
  • What follows will be some men’s worst nightmare, as the conquest turns against them and the seducer becomes the prey.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 10 Mar. 2022
  • The site was likely one of the last urban hubs built in the area prior to the Muslim conquest of Egypt in the mid-seventh century C.E.
    — Tara Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Aug. 2021
  • 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
  • Through self-conquest all of us must earn heaven, and through self-denial, bring down blessings for this present life.
    — Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review, 4 Oct. 2021
  • The full conquest of Ukraine would, on the other hand, be rightly seen as a truly disjunctive event.
    — David Faris, The Week, 22 Feb. 2022

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