How to Use conquest in a Sentence

conquest

noun

• She was one of his many conquests.
• Meanwhile, the conquest of the New World was very much an ad hoc and unplanned affair.
  — Razib Khan, National Review, 31 July 2021
• The battle was the start of a breathtaking period of British conquest on the Indian subcontinent.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2021
• Yet more telling is that the dirt’s color symbolizes the blood of Indigenous people killed and exploited during or after the Spanish conquest.
  — Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2021
• Similar plagues — smallpox, measles and later cholera — nearly wiped out the city's Indigenous population after the conquest.
  — Maria Verza, ajc, 13 Aug. 2021
• Many immigrant residents still speak indigenous languages, such as Nawat, spoken in their countries of origin before the Spanish conquest.
  — Steve Lopez Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 9 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
• 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
• 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
• The Taliban were as unprepared as everyone else for the speed of their conquest.
  — George Packer, The Atlantic, 31 Jan. 2022
• Smelling blood, France, Spain and Bavaria joined in Frederick’s conquest, each hoping to carve a lump from the flailing empire.
  — A. Wess Mitchell, WSJ, 28 Jan. 2022
• Shostakovich write a musical piece to be played at the celebration of his conquest.
  — John Fund, National Review, 6 Mar. 2022
• 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
• But the key factor has undoubtedly been the historic conquest of veneers.
  — Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Aug. 2024
• Metzgar said her next conquest would be appearances on more record charts.
  — Keith Sharon, USA TODAY, 2 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024