How to Use vanquished in a Sentence

vanquished

adjective

• And just like that, Love’s vanquished foe found a new lease of life.
  — Jack Bantock, CNN, 14 Mar. 2025
• The vanquished would be those who have nothing but the present in their lives.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 12 July 2020
• New school textbooks have replaced old ones that vaunted the now-vanquished.
  — Kurt Shillinger, Christian Science Monitor, 29 May 2025
• The dozens of people who signed up could collect one of the native trees in exchange for proof of a vanquished pear tree.
  — New York Times, 26 Nov. 2021
• Hartselle’s balance has been a problem for all of its vanquished opponents.
  — al, 4 Nov. 2021
• This does not begin to capture what happens if long-since vanquished diseases re-ignite or migration surges.
  — Ross Rosenfeld, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Apr. 2025
• The fish-out-of-water hook is gone, as is Giselle’s identity as an overly nice specimen of a vanquished world.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 18 Nov. 2022
• Its fans will understandably celebrate, and the fans of its vanquished opponents will mourn.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2024
• In Sri Lanka, the Rajapaksa clan remains a force, bruised but far from vanquished.
  — Kapil Komireddi, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
• With the emphasis on ‘vanquished’, or as the title indicates, ‘dying’.
  — Tom Teicholz, Forbes.com, 30 May 2025
• Like other vanquished cities, Rome’s buildings became a source of free material.
  — Amanda Foreman, WSJ, 15 Apr. 2021
• That gave the North considerable leverage to impose its will on the vanquished traitors of the seditious South.
  — Damon Linker, TheWeek, 14 Dec. 2020
• Yet this challenging book—a work of principled nihilism—holds just such a mirror to the vanquished country’s shame and disorder.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 9 Oct. 2020
• The internet’s unstated, vanquished opponent is us, the users who both consume and are the butts of the memes that phrase is often a response to.
  — Zak Jason, Wired, 24 Sep. 2021
• But the schedule makers decided not to pit the team against a storied rival or a vanquished opponent from last season’s playoffs.
  — Ken Belson, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2023
• The vanquished river soon became a dumping ground and frequent crime scene, much of it fenced off, crisscrossed by bridges, hemmed in by railway tracks, highways and heavy industry.
  — Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2022
• Or, as Philadelphia Eagles fans would have it, go lubricate the lampposts with the tears of their vanquished rivals.
  — Michael Silver, New York Times, 21 May 2025
• Everywhere, the task of creating collective memorials is fraught, with the pandemic far from vanquished and new dead still being mourned.
  — Fox News, 15 Oct. 2021
• Meanwhile, despite Xi’s claims of having vanquished poverty, most Chinese continue to struggle to make ends meet.
  — Cai Xia, Foreign Affairs, 6 Sep. 2022
• Because the fields of play demand that there is a victor and a vanquished, the inherent experience of ending up as one or the other translates to many aspects of our non-sports lives.
  — Tara Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 1 July 2023
• As the vanquished fish descends through the darkness, other sharks arrive to feast on its remains while the mako, its belly full, circles slowly upward, seeking the surface to bask in the sun.
  — Pat Smith, Outdoor Life, 24 July 2025
• This leads some to wonder whether the imaginary aspect of quantum mechanics — or even reality itself — is truly vanquished.
  — Daniel Garisto, Quanta Magazine, 7 Nov. 2025
• And in the vanquished states, people scrabbled for existence amid starvation and humiliation.
  — Max Hastings, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2013
• The battle, which showcases the remarkable power and agility possessed by black bears, ends with the vanquished bruin running off at 36 seconds.
  — Pete Thomas, USA TODAY, 28 Apr. 2022
• Their sister, Antigone, in defiance of the new king’s edict, attempts to bury Polynices, the brother on the vanquished side, who has been declared an enemy of the state.
  — Teju Cole, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2023
• Each of them is at something of a crossroads, as well, making their situations perhaps a bit more interesting than your typical vanquished ninth or 10th seed.
  — John Hollinger, The Athletic, 23 Apr. 2024
• Audiences marveled at this feat of technological wizardry — that is, until one vanquished player took a closer look and discovered that there was a man hidden inside.
  — Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2021
• Even in Barcelona, Spain’s second-largest city and home to nine players from the vanquished national team, people poured into the streets waving flags, honking horns and setting off flares.
  — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2022
• Once victorious, Zeus condemned his vanquished opponents, notably Atlas, who was forced to carry the burden of the heavens, for eternity.
  — Mike O'Sullivan, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
• The Senate voted to advance an Iran war powers resolution on Tuesday after the vanquished Cassidy flipped to support it.
  — W. James Antle Iii, The Washington Examiner, 20 May 2026