Example sentences for: conquests

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

  • As Ed's unconvincing life runs its increasingly public course, Howard cuts to the folks at home--a Black Couple, a Gay Couple, an Old Couple, a bunch of Single Guys--who wince at him cutting his toenails or cheer on his conquests.

  • 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.

  • At one point, Rivera confides to friends that his wife has become so depressed that he can't even cheer her up by telling her about his latest sexual conquests.

  • Nor­­thern conquests, including Hungary, had been lost by the close of the 17th century.

  • Barcelona’s Jews, though noted as doctors, scholars, and jewelers, and despite their financing of the conquests of the crown, were confined to this district and forced to wear long-hooded cloaks with a yellow headband.


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