Example sentences for: conqueror

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

  • Many arrived with William the Conqueror.

  • The saintly Omar Ibn el Khattab, second successor to Muhammad and the Muslim conqueror of Jerusalem in a.d. 638, declined an invitation from the Christian Patriarch to pray at the Holy Sepulcher for fear his followers might then want to turn the site into a mosque.

  • (This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, as the Bard penned.)

  • 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.

  • 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.


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