How to Use conquest in a Sentence

conquest

noun

• She was one of his many conquests.
• Is the rising conquest of mangroves over oysters a good or bad thing?
  — Kevin Spear, orlandosentinel.com, 5 Mar. 2021
• For him, a film always involves the conquest of new territory and a discovery of the unknown.
  — Kata Wéber, Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2021
• His book is the fruit of an enormous amount of research that focuses on the conquest of the mountains and the interconnected kingdoms and states that vied for control.
  — New York Times, 5 Jan. 2021
• However, the best thing about this is that you’re actually being given a chance to revise your strategies on your professional conquest.
  — Kyle Thomas, Peoplemag, 11 Aug. 2024
• But Taiwan’s conquest would still mark China’s elevation to the ranks of powers so mighty that no single country dares to defy their wishes.
  — The Economist, 20 Feb. 2021
• The publication speculates that WallStreetBets’ next conquest could be mom brands.
  — Eliza Huber, refinery29.com, 29 Jan. 2021
• The polar bear also became a symbol of the conquest of the North Pole by American explorers in 1909.
  — Anne Collins Goodyear, The Conversation, 26 Feb. 2021
• And just as the country at large is still reckoning with the consequences of its conquest of the West, the Western genre will always have to grapple with its most thoughtless and hateful portrayals.
  — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 18 Jan. 2021
• Sticks feel like a reward for the conquest of traipsing through the woods.
  — Jennifer Nelson, Southern Living, 16 June 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
• Pom moved on to his next conquest: a mother and cub who evaded him by scaling a tree.
  — Stephanie Vermillion, USA TODAY, 19 Oct. 2024
• 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
• The Spanish conquest brought with it systems of oppression that continue to our day, including the harsh dogmas imposed by religion.
  — Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 3 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Dec 2024