Example sentences for: conquering

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

  • Later, when Byzantium threatened its eastern trading privileges, Venice persuaded the armies of the Fourth Crusade to attack Constantinople in 1204; conquering Byzantium strengthened its position even more.

  • 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.

  • "Conquering Self-Abuse"

  • In a.d. 711, the Moors brought powerful armies from North Africa and launched a devastating attack on the Iberian peninsula, conquering much of what would become Spain and Portugal.

  • 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.”


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