Words similar to subdue

Example sentences for: subdue

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

Early in 1650 Oliver Cromwell stationed his garrison here while attempting to subdue the rebellious Scottish monarchists; he was victorious at the Battle of Dunbar.
When the news reached London, Henry VIII saw his chance to subdue Scotland again and negotiated a marriage between the infant Mary and his son Edward.
It took the Romans almost 300 years to subdue the Iberian tribes.
[B]ecause the equality of right and ability breeds "equality of hope in the attaining of our Ends," and because each man's ends are naturally to be preferred to his rival's, the two will inevitably "become enemies," and in the absence of a neutral arbiter "they will endeavor to destroy or subdue one another."
An article warns that Slobodan Milosevic might be massing troops to brutally subdue Montenegro, the democratic Yugoslavian republic struggling to separate itself from Serbia.