Example sentences for: conquests

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

  • He managed to simultaneously pursue foreign conquests in Germany and Austria and domestic reforms that included a modernized university, a police force, and proper supplies of drinking water for Pari­sians.

  • Before the conquests, the Aryans were organized in three classes: warriors, priests, and commoners.

  • Roman power extended throughout the Mediterranean with a victory in the Punic Wars against Carthage (now Tunisia) and conquests in Macedonia, Asia Minor, Spain, and southern France.

  • Obviously the short-lived French conquests in the region left behind words and names; here a crazy man is foo [for Fr fou ] or, if you want to insult him, a crapaud toad, while on our little island resolutely British placenames (Grenville, Victoria) nestle beside villages like Perd-mon-Temps, La Tante, Crochu.

  • Made possible by its conquests, elegant Palladian villas grace the Veneto mainland from Venice to Padua and Vicenza.


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