Example sentences for: conquering

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

  • The case against him began when lawyers and judges became convinced that the interests of the citizen "had been violated, and therefore humiliated, by the conquering ride of Microsoft and by the personality cult of its leader," the paper said.

  • "Conquering Self-Abuse"

  • One could stop well short of anything as elaborate as the Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie's old tag line ("King of Kings, Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah") or the array of distinctions paraded by the young ruler in Evelyn Waugh's Black Mischief (a proclamation begins, "We, Seth, Emperor of Azania, Lord of Wanda, Bachelor of the Arts of Oxford University ..."

  • Spooner's original Kinkering Kongs for Conquering Kings falls into this category along with the comment attributed to him that the story of the flood was “barrowed from Bobylon.”

  • With these weapons in hand, a terrorist can use low-tech means of conquering distance--say, crossing a border with an atom bomb in a trunk or a vial of anthrax in a vest pocket.


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