How to Use conquistador in a Sentence

conquistador

noun

• Presumably, the conquistadors who sailed up the West Coast in the 1530s had read the book.
  — Dodie Kazanjian, Vogue, 1 Nov. 2017
• Africans, both enslaved and free, some of whom had been among the first conquistadors.
  — Lizzie Wade, Science | AAAS, 12 Apr. 2018
• Rodeo came to the New World with the conquistadors, along with horses and cattle.
  — Melissa Lyttle, Smithsonian, 13 Dec. 2017
• Note that the priests there had the conquistadors to augment their efforts.
  — Nicholas Frankovich, National Review, 21 Sep. 2017
• The name and the friendly conquistador mascot have gone away.
  — al, 23 June 2022
• Some of the enslaved Africans the conquistador brought with him escaped and sought refuge with Native tribes.
  — Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 June 2022
• The coin has the conquistador Vasco Núñez de Balboa on it.
  — Ashley Maria Bermúdez / Special To The Sentinel, orlandosentinel.com, 25 Nov. 2021
• Subin takes us centuries back to Columbus, Cortes and Cook and the self-serving myths of conquistador godhood.
  — Washington Post, 28 Jan. 2022
• Enslaved as a child, she was given as a teenager to Hernán Cortés, the Spanish conquistador.
  — Deborah Martin, San Antonio Express-News, 12 Oct. 2022
• The conquistadors were certain there was money to be made from cacao.
  — David Lyman, Detroit Free Press, 22 Sep. 2017
• The pork featured in the dish and widely consumed in the region was introduced by the Spanish conquistadors.
  — Serena Maria Daniels, CNN, 23 Mar. 2023
• The island dates all the way back to the 15th century when it was first discovered by Spanish conquistadors.
  — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 8 Mar. 2023
• That story begins in 1588, when the conquistador Pizarro brought back to Spain and presented at the royal court this strange little food.
  — Bill St. John, The Denver Post, 9 Oct. 2019
• Smallpox seems to have reached the Incan Empire before the Spaniards did; the infection raced from one settlement to the next faster than the conquistadores could travel.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2020
• The conquistadors described them as the stupidest animals in the world.
  — National Geographic, 26 May 2018
• Those skulls, the conquistadors assumed, were what remained of men who had been defeated in battle.
  — Cleve R. Wootson Jr., Washington Post, 4 July 2017
• Conquistadors took the tubers and ignored the ways the plants and their diseases had been managed in complex crop rotations for centuries.
  — Raj Patel, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2017
• Legends of these sunny blooms are woven into the myths of native tribes, Spanish conquistadors and 49ers.
  — Elisa Parhad, latimes.com, 29 Oct. 2017
• Four of the cities exist today; a fifth, Nambija, was rediscovered in 1981 when a group of boys hunting wild boars stumbled across the ruins of a mine dug by the conquistadors.
  — Laura Millan Lombrana, Bloomberg.com, 20 Dec. 2017
• Their efforts to pull down a monument of Spanish conquistador Juan de Oñate suddenly stopped as four shots rang out.
  — Katie Shepherd, Anchorage Daily News, 16 June 2020
• Spanish conquistadores came to this region in the 16th century seeking the fabled Seven Cities of Gold.
  — Jim Robbins, New York Times, 6 Nov. 2019
• American Green Berets helped train a special-forces unit called the kaibiles, named for a Mam leader who had evaded capture by Spanish conquistadors.
  — Rachel Nolan, The New Yorker, 30 Dec. 2019
• The shooting happened as protesters were trying to pull down a statue of Spanish conquistador Juan de Oñate.
  — John Blake, CNN, 18 Mar. 2023
• Her reply was a reflection of her moxie, not of a sincere desire to raise an army of Bengali-speaking conquistadors.
  — Reihan Salam, WSJ, 21 Sep. 2018
• But not even brazen and embattled President Trump has lofty conquistador ambitions, only to plant his name on a tower and a golf course.
  — Fabiola Santiago, miamiherald, 22 Aug. 2017
• After a small battle with soldiers sent to negotiate, the conquistador Don Juan Oñate attacked the mesa and killed hundreds of men, women and children.
  — Jim Robbins, New York Times, 6 Nov. 2019
• In 1532, Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro and a small band of soldiers landed on the northwestern coast of Peru.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 16 May 2018
• The former home of the Calusa tribe, conquistadors and pirates, the island’s mystique has attracted visitors for centuries.
  — Smithsonian, 12 July 2017
• The church was built in 1590, seven decades after Spanish conquistadors arrived in the Oaxaca Valley.
  — Franz Lidz Meghan Dhaliwal, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2023
• The musical draws on real history for its comic saga of greedy and feuding conquistadors, and of Aztec warriors such as the feisty Colombina (with her clown sidekick Pepe) who fight back against the Spaniards.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Sep. 2019

Last Updated: 28 May 2024