Example sentences for: conquered

How can you use “conquered” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The central part of the Po valley is only a fraction of the Italian lands conquered by the Lombards when they crossed the Alps from eastern Europe in the early Middle Ages.

  • Describing potentially intractable problems might also spur on young readers who are thinking of studying evolutionary biology with the hope that there are still some theoretical battles to be conquered.

  • In the Book of Joshua, soldiers were executed for transgressing certain implicit rules of warfare , like looting conquered cities.

  • The Christian provinces gradually captured and annexed former bastions of Moorish rule: Ferdinand III conquered Murcia for Castile in 1242; Denia and Játiva fell to James the Conqueror of Aragon in 1244, though it was not until 1265 that he secured Cartagena.

  • Once again Judea was conquered by foreign forces and Jerusalem reduced to rubble.


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