Example sentences for: conquest

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

  • Gavin O'Connor plays the dull-witted trucker who's Mary Jo's latest conquest, and he also directed the movie and co-wrote the screenplay with Angela Shelton.

  • If past situations are anything to go by, those languages affected today will undergo irreversible change, as English did after the Danish invasions and the Norman Conquest.

  • “Advice of an Aztec Mother to Her Daughter” is reprinted in William H. Prescott’s The Conquest of Mexico.

  • Cardinal Richelieu (the powerful 17th-century French statesman) for one dreamed of conquest in the New World.

  • In Mobutu's native Lingala language, according to one group of press reports, the name means "the all-powerful warrior who, because of his endurance and inflexible will to win, will go from conquest to conquest leaving fire in his wake."


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