How to Use conquistador in a Sentence

conquistador

noun

• Dávila, the conquistador of present-day northern Colombia, once read it out of earshot of a village just before launching a surprise attack.
  — Diego Javier Luis, The Conversation, 2 Oct. 2024
• Spanish conquistadors brought the cooking style practiced by indigenous Caribbean tribes north.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 26 Sep. 2024
• 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
• Much of what is known of the rules come from the records of Spanish conquistadors who encountered it during their besiegement of the Aztec Empire in the 1500s.
  — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 16 July 2024
• 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

Last Updated: 11 Dec 2024