How to Use conquest in a Sentence

conquest

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  • She was one of his many conquests.
  • Meanwhile, through the conquest of acquisition, Xbox will begin to close the distance.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
  • This plan would prevent the kind of collapse and conquest that followed the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021.
    — Michael McFaul, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • That, at any rate, is the dream of for-profit space conquest that Musk and the other New Space firms signed on for.
    — Clive Thompson, The New Republic, 3 Dec. 2020
  • 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
  • Their 4-3, Game 7 conquest of the Braves was a master class in plate discipline.
    — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 20 Oct. 2020
  • The very word 'conquest' was distasteful to him in this context.
    — CBS News, 15 Dec. 2021
  • What could show greater conquest over fire than to tame it for this frivolity?
    — Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 10 Dec. 2020
  • Is the rising conquest of mangroves over oysters a good or bad thing?
    — Kevin Spear, orlandosentinel.com, 5 Mar. 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 southern, known as al-Qarafa, is even older, used since the 700s, not long after the Muslim conquest of Egypt.
    — Lee Keath, Star Tribune, 31 July 2020
  • 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 mecha play a part in that conquest but also Japan’s liberation.
    — Ollie Barder, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2021
  • The late-night host gig, however, was a different kind of conquest.
    — Breeanna Hare, CNN, 23 May 2021

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