Example sentences for: conquerors

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

  • As old as Buddhism, Jainism has made its mark with its concept of ahimsa (non-violence) and is much more pacifist than its name, which means religion of the conquerors.

  • This time the conquerors were the Manchus, who established a dynasty that proved as long-lived and as glorious as the Ming.

  • In 1511 Diego de Velázquez sailed from neighboring Hispaniola with some 300 conquistadores (conquerors).

  • Almost as the Spaniards founded their capital on the ruins of an Indian pueblo, the American conquerors of New Mexico built their territorial capital on and around a dilapidated Spanish-Mexican core, little of which remains today.

  • Abandoned by what many still call the “damned French” (maudits français), they felt that they alone had earned the name of canadiens, and that their British conquerors usurped it.


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