Example sentences for: vanquished

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

  • The idea that words strung together will inevitably make some sort of sense and conjure connections in a reader's mind has been vanquished by MTV.

  • Just as the slump of the '90s has been replaced by the eternal boom, the cynical pessimists of Gen X have been vanquished by the cheery Ys.

  • Two years later, Moors fleeing from the newly vanquished Sevilla swelled the population, which had already been augmented by refugees from Córdoba.

  • They would not expect the president to be devoid of dysfunction, but would expect him to have recognized and vanquished his own abusive behaviors.

  • Américo Paredes cites a stanza from a corrido (ballad) the Mexican soldiers sang after the Battle of Puebla (celebrated on Cinco de Mayo) that taunts the vanquished French soldiers with the following words:


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