How to Use vanquish in a Sentence

vanquish

verb

• They were vanquished in battle.
• And with that 81-game streak vanquished, a loss is just a bump in the road.
  — Neal Rubin, Detroit Free Press, 24 June 2024
• No one in the field expects HIV to be vanquished in the next year or so.
  — Alice Park, Time, 8 Mar. 2018
• Ethan sets out to vanquish the dragon that took his heart.
  — Carly Mallenbaum, USA TODAY, 19 Aug. 2020
• With the monster vanquished, the stink of evil can begin to be scrubbed away.
  — Chris Wiley, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2024
• But come July, the goal was no longer to vanquish covid at all costs.
  — Washington Post, 11 Aug. 2021
• And so, after more than 30 years, the final claim on the Pearl of Lao Tzu was vanquished.
  — Michael Lapointe, The Atlantic, 11 May 2018
• The phrase itself hasn’t been heard much since Ronald Reagan vanquished the Democrats in 1984.
  — Eric Roston, Bloomberg.com, 7 June 2017
• 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
• Max, on the other hand, had seen, and vanquished, thousands.
  — Andy Newman, New York Times, 1 June 2017
• 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
• No matter who won, there was sure to be a party shared by victors and the vanquished.
  — Arthur Hart, idahostatesman, 8 July 2017
• In his opinion, the issue is still whether the U.S. can vanquish the pandemic.
  — Jon Blau, The Indianapolis Star, 15 Aug. 2020
• Russia, its worst fears vanquished, has done just that.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 25 June 2018
• Sending a text that wishes someone the best can be the best way to vanquish a zombie.
  — Meredith Goldstein, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Aug. 2019
• 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
• While some Democrats merely want to win, others want to vanquish Trump.
  — Alexander Nazaryan, Newsweek, 21 Feb. 2018
• 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
• All the challengers had been vanquished long ago, in the primaries, and from that moment on this triumphant result was a cert.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 25 July 2024
• The musicians have all been vanquished by the establishment.
  — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 28 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 23 Dec 2024