Example sentences for: subdue

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

  • One group of tribals would subdue the guards, enter Tarnak Farms stealthily, grab Bin Ladin, take him to a desert site outside Kandahar, and turn him over to a second group.

  • An article warns that Slobodan Milosevic might be massing troops to brutally subdue Montenegro, the democratic Yugoslavian republic struggling to separate itself from Serbia.

  • Henry VIII and Elizabeth I were determined to subdue Ireland, and sent in massive military expeditions.

  • The London Observer reported Sunday that Malaysia had "carried out a mass poisoning of defenceless refugees and migrant workers in detention camps" to "subdue them before repatriation."

  • 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.


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