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Example sentences for: conquer

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When Alexander went on to conquer lands as far to the east as India, the Aegean became a crossroads for the long trading routes.
Modern historians’ version is rather less exotic: Jimmu was probably a pirate from Okinawa who settled in Kyushu before launching his campaign to conquer Honshu.
During the swimsuit competition, while helping Hitler glue his modest one-piece to his modest ass, Buchanan learns that his rival is a pretty nice guy who wants to do no more than conquer Europe and kill all the Jews.
Victor Hugo, who stood among the crowd, dutifully recorded, in a poem on the occasion, that Napoleon had been wrong--that Napoleon had tried to conquer with the sword instead of with the mind.
The Portuguese policy was to avoid armed strife and to develop a trade empire, rather than to conquer nations.