Example sentences for: conquered

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

  • After Alexander the Great’s death, the conquered territory was divided among his generals, whose mutual antagonism and expansionist ambitions led to weaknesses that exposed western Anatolia to the increasing might of Rome.

  • The dauntless Afonso Henriques conquered it for the Christians in 1147, a major victory in the reconquest of Portugal.

  • Foreign historians generally conclude that Kublai Khan became an “almost authentic” Chinese emperor, that the conquerors changed more profoundly than the conquered.

  • Whatever really happened, the Mycenaean Greeks who were supposed to have conquered King Priam’s city soon found their own civilization in decline.

  • The area was dominated in the past by the papacy, which conquered the Lombard dukes of Spoleto in the Middle Ages, Perugia in the 16th century, and held sway until the unification of Italy.


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