How to Use conquest in a Sentence

conquest

noun
  • She was one of his many conquests.
  • Or are these new conquest consumers?
    Morgan Korn, ABC News, 22 Mar. 2026
  • Uso’s conquest proved to be futile.
    Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 28 June 2026
  • Sticks feel like a reward for the conquest of traipsing through the woods.
    Jennifer Nelson, Southern Living, 16 June 2021
  • What could show greater conquest over fire than to tame it for this frivolity?
    Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 10 Dec. 2020
  • Gail isn’t shy about her conquest, and her new friends don’t hesitate to help.
    ABC News, 8 July 2026
  • The conquest of Gaul is hailed as a great military feat.
    Paul Vanderbroeck, Big Think, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Is the rising conquest of mangroves over oysters a good or bad thing?
    Kevin Spear, orlandosentinel.com, 5 Mar. 2021
  • Surely the moon was just a steppingstone in the conquest of space.
    Anchorage Daily News, 23 June 2019
  • The success of his plan does not hinge on overt conquest of neighboring states.
    Loren Thompson, Forbes, 21 June 2022
  • No call out of centuries of British bloody conquest and plunder.
    Omid Scobie, Harper's BAZAAR, 25 Mar. 2022
  • The Greeks are still schooling us on how to live through turmoil and conquest.
    Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 27 June 2017
  • The first is that conquest by the French is still a touchy subject in some circles.
    The Economist, 17 Jan. 2018
  • May our next adventures be lessons — not in conquest, but in openness.
    Wilson Santiago Burgos, USA Today, 26 Oct. 2025
  • The very word 'conquest' was distasteful to him in this context.
    CBS News, 15 Dec. 2021
  • The middle is the red of his bloody conquest, and the top, around his shoulders, has been stained a dirty black.
    James Grebey, Vulture, 25 May 2024
  • So clearly conquest mattered and was worth planning for.
    Devon O’Neil, Outside, 15 Oct. 2025
  • The best way to avoid them would be to withdraw invading forces from a fizzling war of conquest.
    Popular Mechanics, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Tariffs, conquests; all are subverted to this man’s ego.
    The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Painted over by the joy that came when her teammates rushed the court to celebrate her conquest.
    Buddy Collings, The Orlando Sentinel, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Members receive a notebook to keep track of their conquests, along with a T-shirt.
    Wesley Case, baltimoresun.com, 9 Jan. 2018
  • The tour ends in the leafy main square where the handsome buildings of the Spanish conquest span whole city streets.
    Claire Boobbyer, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Amelia Earhart was known for her conquest of the skies, but in this case, her exploits will be portrayed on water.
    Laurel Graeber, New York Times, 17 May 2018
  • But France’s voting system stands a bit in the way of a far-right conquest in parliament.
    Elaine Ganley, ajc, 25 Apr. 2022
  • Meanwhile, the conquest of the New World was very much an ad hoc and unplanned affair.
    Razib Khan, National Review, 31 July 2021
  • Ours are quests that lead to questions rather than conquests – journeys that gather instead of conquer.
    Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 16 Mar. 2026
  • In trade and conquest, religion and nutrition, life in Greece has long emerged from the sea.
    Zander Abranowicz, ELLE Decor, 2 July 2018
  • In Joshua's conquest, Jerusalem was the last city to be liberated.
    Rabbi Avi Weiss, Jewish Journal, 12 June 2017
  • That church is thought to have pre-dated the Norman conquest of 1066.
    Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 17 Apr. 2025
  • To that point, human history was a tale of conquest and caste and rigid hierarchies.
    Sara Tenenbaum, CBS News, 18 June 2026

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