Example sentences for: conqueror

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

  • In 1649, Ireland’s most hated conqueror, Oliver Cromwell, arrived in Dublin.

  • When Adolf Hitler arrived in Paris as a conqueror in 1940, the Arc de Triomphe was the first place he wanted to see.

  • The Christians gradually captured and annexed the former bastions of Moorish rule; in 1236, Córdoba fell to James the Conqueror, followed by Sevilla in 1248.

  • 7. The change from numble pie to umble pie to humble pie , attributed to “some anonymous punster in the time of William the Conqueror,” was actually due to the same influences that changed a napron to an apron in the first instance and to the characteristic weakening of the initial h in English, heard today in an historical, an hilarious , etc.

  • 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.


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