How to Use conqueror in a Sentence

conqueror

noun

• The pursuer and the pursued; the conqueror and the conquest.
  — Anne Kniggendorf, Kansas City Star, 14 Apr. 2024
• To be an American is to be a descendant of conquerors, pioneers, visionaries, and explorers.
  — Marina Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 12 June 2024
• The year 2020 brought a new and deadly conqueror, the coronavirus.
  — Washington Post, 23 Nov. 2021
• The little that is known about the Parisii comes from the writings of ancient Roman conquerors.
  — Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Apr. 2023
• Having come through the wars, both emerged rich and unscathed, as conquerors of the comedy world.
  — Brian Lowry, CNN, 26 May 2023
• At that time, the Mongolian conqueror Genghis Khan was leading his army on a warpath across Asia.
  — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 22 Dec. 2020
• My heart says that Wilder could avenge his defeat by knocking out his conqueror.
  — Josh Katzowitz, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2021
• The hulking giant is General Radahn, conqueror of the stars.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2021
• The centuries brought other conquerors, including the Visigoths, the Spanish, the Moors and the French, and a wide range of architectural styles.
  — Sara Clemence Richard Pedaline, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2023
• After Tenerife — the last island to be conquered — fell to Spain, the conquerors dispersed the Guanche population across the world as slaves.
  — Jp Mangalindan, Peoplemag, 21 Feb. 2024
• The president now presents himself as the heroic conqueror of the disease, having helped turn the White House itself into a petri dish.
  — Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2020
• Alexander the Great was a successful conqueror but poor planner.
  — Charlotte Dunn, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Aug. 2022
• The memory of the 18th-century conqueror is vivid for those in the Kremlin bent on restoring the Russian imperium.
  — Marc Santora, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2022
• After all, what kind of bloodthirsty conqueror wants to become a static wizard?
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 22 Feb. 2023
• For this bunch to be a title team, Giannis has to be the conqueror and all the corresponding pieces must fall into subsequent place.
  — Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 July 2021
• In 2007, for example, when the U.S. lost to Brazil in the semifinals, the Americans had to listen to their conquerors celebrating all night.
  — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2023
• Both were killed by political rivals after the death of the Macedonian conqueror in 323 B.C.
  — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 25 Nov. 2014
• The Russians came to Berlin as conquerors within living memory and even ruled a quarter of Germany by proxy until 1991.
  — Radek Sikorski, Foreign Affairs, 20 June 2023
• His company is not just a builder of cars but also a purveyor of thrills, a breaker of records, a conqueror of the public imagination.
  — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2023
• The conqueror of Europe was also an ‘intermittent gardener’ to the end.
  — Wsj Books Staff, WSJ, 18 June 2021
• Euric was smitten but suspicious, as Gaya belonged to a rebel group bent on driving out their Moorish conquerors.
  — Lorraine Berry, Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2023
• One day in the thirteenth century, James I of Aragon, not only a great conqueror but a king famous for his powers of memory, made a revealing slip.
  — Daniel Mendelsohn, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2022
• Yet Zelensky did more than just resist the oncoming conqueror.
  — Erica Ariel Fox, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2022
• There, a fan gave him a cheesehead hat — the crowning glory of Packers supporters — and Gardner put it atop his head, gleefully parading around the stadium like a conqueror.
  — Emmanuel Morgan, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2022
• Swiatek, 21, had solidified her status as a clay-court conqueror by winning the French Open for the second time in three years, but she was bounced early from subsequent tournaments.
  — Helene Elliott, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2022
• Kier tumbled to the court along the baseline, his conqueror momentarily standing over him with a menacing glare.
  — Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2022
• Seeing Woods fight through obvious pain has kindled a new kind of Tiger mania as fans, and sponsors, support him anew in the role of resilient survivor rather than invincible conqueror.
  — Matt Craig, Forbes, 10 June 2022
• The residence was designed by 20th-century architect Manuel Parra and sits on the same cobblestone avenue where the first haciendas of the Spanish conquerors were built.
  — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 3 Aug. 2023
• Germans with a less Olympian theory of history rarely shared Hegel’s admiration for their conqueror.
  — Jeffrey Collins, WSJ, 18 Mar. 2022
• Darkseid is an alien conqueror who some viewers might think seems like a Thanos rip-off, but the character actually predates his Marvel counterpart.
  — James Grebey, Vulture, 12 Mar. 2021

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024