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Example sentences for: subdue

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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."
He sent thousands of troops across the Pyrenees to subdue the Spaniards, who then revolted.
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.
A French army marched in to subdue the country.