How to Use vanquish in a Sentence

vanquish

verb

• They were vanquished in battle.
• Ethan sets out to vanquish the dragon that took his heart.
  — Carly Mallenbaum, USA TODAY, 19 Aug. 2020
• But come July, the goal was no longer to vanquish covid at all costs.
  — Washington Post, 11 Aug. 2021
• In any case, there will be lots to explore and plenty of foes to vanquish.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2021
• Then the devil pops up, and over the course of about a half an hour, the infant Mary vanquishes the devil!
  — Jeremy Eichler, BostonGlobe.com, 15 June 2023
• Hillary apologizes, and then two of them agree to join forces and vanquish Trump.
  — Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2022
• Over the span of a few years, Ford had unveiled the Mustang, won at Le Mans, and vanquished its fuddy-​duddy image.
  — Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 8 Oct. 2019
• In his opinion, the issue is still whether the U.S. can vanquish the pandemic.
  — Jon Blau, The Indianapolis Star, 15 Aug. 2020
• Two types of white blood cells, T- and B-cells, tag-team to vanquish invading pathogens.
  — Allysia Finley, WSJ, 17 Jan. 2022
• These tech tips can help vanquish the monsters in the closet—or create good vibes for teens.
  — Simon Hill, Wired, 15 Apr. 2021
• Return to Hyrule and vanquish the evil king Ganondorf in this open-world action game.
  — PCMAG, 19 Jan. 2023
• Adorn a suit of armor and vanquish someone else dressed as a dragon, that sort of thing.
  — Longreads, 16 Sep. 2022
• The other, inaudible and vanquished, The delay is just right, phase in essence.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 14 Apr. 2020
• There is nothing a world of best intentions can do to vanquish that hurt.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 25 May 2021
• The bottom line is the villain in these legal dramas and the bottom line cannot be vanquished.
  — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Jan. 2020
• Djokovic took five long sets on Friday night to vanquish Alexander Zverev.
  — Gerald Marzorati, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2021
• The Raiders smartly leaned on Josh Jacobs as their red-zone savior to vanquish the winless start.
  — Richard Morin, USA TODAY, 10 Oct. 2022
• And some seem to be focused more on the rollout of the vaccines that could eventually vanquish the threat.
  — Julie Watson and Terry Tang, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Jan. 2021
• There may be only one more chance left for Izzo to vanquish one of his chief nemeses.
  — Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 4 June 2021
• The country of 5 million has been able to vanquish each outbreak since, recording just 26 virus deaths.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 22 Aug. 2021
• Back then, the 2006 Lebanon-Israel war ended with no clear victor or vanquished.
  — Tamara Qiblawi, CNN, 16 Oct. 2023
• Contrast that with the way that Nadal met and vanquished the challenge of the supremely talented Medvedev, who also brought his A-game to the final.
  — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 2 Oct. 2019
• The game had dribbled away and cricket has a way of extending the agony of the vanquished in torturous slow motion.
  — Tim Ellis, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
• Cholera, typhoid, and dysentery have been vanquished in the richer nations.
  — Time, 3 Aug. 2023
• The Peacocks now take on a Murray State squad that also needed overtime to vanquish their foe.
  — Alex Kay, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2022
• Then, the next year, just as improbably, Napoli wins the Italian league for the first time, vanquishing its foes in the north and its haters everywhere.
  — Ryu Spaeth, The New Republic, 10 Oct. 2019
• It’s as procedural as a game: Fight the mini-boss, fight the bigger boss, then finally vanquish the Big Bad.
  — Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2019
• Chameleon is after Po’s Staff of Wisdom, which would give her the power to re-summon all the master villains whom Po has vanquished to the spirit realm.
  — Carolyn Giardina, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Dec. 2023
• The senators’ pledges to defend democracy and vanquish tyranny seemed a throwback to the Cold War.
  — New York Times, 17 Jan. 2022
• Lawmakers should likely expect a cat-and-mouse game of blocks, evasion, and counter-blocks rather than to vanquish TikTok for good with one stroke of a pen.
  — WIRED, 2 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024