How to Use conquest in a Sentence

conquest

noun

• She was one of his many conquests.
• 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
• The late-night host gig, however, was a different kind of conquest.
  — Breeanna Hare, CNN, 23 May 2021
• In my culture, before the conquest of the modern world, women were for peace and harmony and made the decisions, not men.
  — Katherine Gallardo, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Oct. 2024
• As long as global cultures remain connected—either by trade or forcible conquest—design typologies will continue to meld.
  — Stefanie Waldek, House Beautiful, 17 May 2021
• The Britons were the Celtic speaking peoples who had inhabited Britain before the Roman conquest.
  — Amy Briscoe, Wired, 21 Apr. 2021
• Yet the conquest of space is by its nature a speculative endeavor, and perhaps needed some irrational exuberance to help wake it from a 50-year slumber.
  — Jon Sindreu, WSJ, 11 May 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 27 Nov 2024