How to Use conqueror in a Sentence

conqueror

noun
  • Some as conquerors, some as Crusaders.
    Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 6 Dec. 2025
  • My heart says that Wilder could avenge his defeat by knocking out his conqueror.
    Josh Katzowitz, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2021
  • Where is the option to enjoy cannabis as a companion, not a conqueror?
    Jahan Marcu, Rolling Stone, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Having come through the wars, both emerged rich and unscathed, as conquerors of the comedy world.
    Brian Lowry, CNN, 26 May 2023
  • Visually, the Honcho leans more pit-bike than prairie conqueror.
    New Atlas, 24 Feb. 2026
  • After all, what kind of bloodthirsty conqueror wants to become a static wizard?
    Christian Holub, EW.com, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Football, too, was brought to colonies by conquerors, only to be embraced by the conquered and remade anew.
    Franklin Leonard, Vanity Fair, 14 May 2026
  • Alexander the Great was a successful conqueror but poor planner.
    Charlotte Dunn, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Aug. 2022
  • The American conquerors of Hawaii wanted this game banned.
    Matt Negrin, Rolling Stone, 20 Sep. 2025
  • The year 2020 brought a new and deadly conqueror, the coronavirus.
    Washington Post, 23 Nov. 2021
  • The little that is known about the Parisii comes from the writings of ancient Roman conquerors.
    Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Theirs is the other grand story from would-be California conquerors.
    Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2025
  • Over the centuries, the temples suffered severe damage from conquerors, wars, and earthquakes.
    Irene S. Levine, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2025
  • In the same jungle, centuries earlier, a group of Spanish conquerors falls to that same ruthless force.
    Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Yet Zelensky did more than just resist the oncoming conqueror.
    Erica Ariel Fox, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2022
  • At that time, the Mongolian conqueror Genghis Khan was leading his army on a warpath across Asia.
    Robert Hackett, Fortune, 22 Dec. 2020
  • Is the human species forsaking the very attribute that catalyzed our evolution from tree-dwellers to global conquerors?
    Steven Delco, Hartford Courant, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Topuria, for his part, has vowed to run it back with Gaethje, praising his conqueror while promising the story between them is far from over.
    Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
  • At this same time, Nima goes on a little parade around New Eden like a conqueror surveying their new land.
    Rafael Motamayor, Vulture, 15 Sep. 2024
  • His company is not just a builder of cars but also a purveyor of thrills, a breaker of records, a conqueror of the public imagination.
    Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Euric was smitten but suspicious, as Gaya belonged to a rebel group bent on driving out their Moorish conquerors.
    Lorraine Berry, Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Within these fantasy walls, Evie and her fellow players exist as conquerors and deities that reach stratospheric heights.
    David John Chávez, The Mercury News, 24 Jan. 2025
  • The conqueror of Europe was also an ‘intermittent gardener’ to the end.
    Wsj Books Staff, WSJ, 18 June 2021
  • For this bunch to be a title team, Giannis has to be the conqueror and all the corresponding pieces must fall into subsequent place.
    Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 July 2021
  • But legend has it that despite the might of these ancient conquerors, pockets of Sardinia sometimes managed to defend themselves.
    IEEE Spectrum, 7 May 2026
  • The president now presents himself as the heroic conqueror of the disease, having helped turn the White House itself into a petri dish.
    Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2020
  • At the same time, the New World’s conquerors mocked the idea of humanity’s oneness, laying the foundation for race supremacy.
    Greg Grandin september 23, Literary Hub, 23 Sep. 2025
  • The Romans overthrew Cleopatra and ruled as conquerors, marking an end to history’s longest empire.
    Kate McMahon, Travel + Leisure, 25 Jan. 2025
  • After Tenerife — the last island to be conquered — fell to Spain, the conquerors dispersed the Guanche population across the world as slaves.
    Jp Mangalindan, Peoplemag, 21 Feb. 2024
  • His attitude was in line with the consensus of his era, a time when urban elites ruled unchallenged over Andean countries that remained very much the home of conquerors and the conquered.
    Wade Davis, Rolling Stone, 6 Apr. 2025

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