How to Use conquest in a Sentence

conquest

noun
  • She was one of his many conquests.
  • 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
  • Then there were the Catholic missionaries with their colonial conquests.
    Jennifer Thuy Vi Nguyen, Longreads, 11 June 2024
  • The Mapuches checked Spain’s conquest of Chile’s south for three centuries.
    Emiliano Granada, Variety, 12 Nov. 2021
  • The conquest and colonization of New England mattered, of course.
    oregonlive, 25 Nov. 2021
  • Chalma was a site sacred in pre-Hispanic times before the 1521 conquest.
    NBC News, 27 Nov. 2021
  • Egyptian Arabic, on the other hand, includes some Turkish from the Ottoman conquest.
    BostonGlobe.com, 25 Oct. 2021
  • Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war of conquest in democratic Ukraine is emblematic of this sad trend.
    Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, Washington Post, 9 July 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • And Verakne might take over Abigail Brand on Earth to oversee her conquest plan.
    Chris Smith, BGR, 23 Mar. 2022

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