Sentence examples for but failed to conquer from inspiring English sources

It came, it saw, but failed to conquer.

Today Smarty is just another horse who came to the Belmont but failed to conquer.

Chandler's conflicted outspokenness reflected the level of existential confusion the Knicks confronted Tuesday night but failed to conquer.

Then came Mourinho, who twice delivered the English crown but failed to conquer Europe and failed to let the style of his team overcome the rigid structure he imposed.

He maintained his alliance with England apart from a break in 1435 39, when he tried but failed to conquer Calais but seldom gave England serious help against France.

The Turks besieged and damaged Pressburg, but failed to conquer it.

But David failed to conquer the American kitchen.

They came, they rented their morning suits, but they failed to conquer.

In my Venezuelan years, I had twice failed to conquer the falls, failing first because there wasn't enough water in the December river to make it over the rapids, and second time round because a nasty bout of hepatitis left me too weak for the rigours of the expedition.

6 Who won a famous land battle, but was defeated at sea and failed to conquer Greece?

He obtained appointment as general of the Imperial Armada and of the North and Baltic seas (1628) and planned a great trading company, comprising the emperor, Spain, and the Hanseatic towns, to cut out the Dutch and English carrying trade, but this scheme collapsed when his general, Hans Georg von Arnim, failed to conquer Stralsund, which would have been a first-rate naval base.