How to Use conquest in a Sentence

conquest

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  • 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
  • Odesa appears to remain an object of conquest for Russia.
    — Phil McCausland, NBC News, 18 May 2022
  • Its machismo not only colors combat scenes and bedroom conquests, but also restricts the roles of its few prominent female characters.
    — Judy Berman, TIME, 17 July 2024
  • From there, the Vikings embarked on a conquest of Britain, raiding coastal communities with increasingly large and brutal armies.
    — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Nor did the candidates attempt to justify Vladimir Putin’s war of expansionism and conquest in Ukraine.
    — Noah Rothman, National Review, 13 Feb. 2024
  • After two straight tours, the Toronto artist likely planned to get to an island for more romantic conquests (and arguments) to rhyme about on his next album, and now Kendrick is holding him up.
    — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 22 Apr. 2024
  • Law enforcement also found 50 files, mostly audio files of chants and songs, celebrating the conquests of the Islamic State and the need for jihad.
    — Ben Brasch, Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2024
  • Unlike past revisionist states, China cannot really augment economic power through conquest.
    — Stephen G. Brooks, Foreign Affairs, 18 June 2024
  • 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
  • That’s the source of conflict over land, from the earliest conquests of raiding tribes from the East to today’s resistance to the threats of changes in neighborhoods.
    — Dean Minnich, Baltimore Sun, 16 June 2024
  • 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

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