Sentence examples for conquer from inspiring English sources
conquer
To defeat in combat; to subjugate.
- In 1453, the Ottoman Empire conquered Istanbul.
The word "conquer" is correct and usable in written English. It is a verb that means to gain control or overcome something. Example: She was determined to conquer her fear of public speaking.
He first appeared with the Union theatre repertory company (later renamed the Melbourne theatre company) in 1960 in She Stoops to Conquer.
This seems unlikely to be the production with which the Mikhailovsky will conquer New York.
It was always clear that to meet the 2020 goal, UK exporters would need to conquer markets beyond the eurozone.
Not content with annexing every dinner party conversation and huge swathes of the television schedules, England's Greed is Good division set out to conquer the world with Game 39, or the international round: a proposal, unveiled in February last year, to play 10 games between the 20 Premier League clubs each January, in different cities and time-zones around the world.
The man who famously replied "because it's there" to a journalist who asked why he felt driven to conquer Everest, died on his third attempt on the mountain in 1924.
Mostly the speech hailed the success of "denationalisation" (as privatisation was still called), the need to conquer inflation, tame the unions, cut tax ("too high") and reform Europe.
When I was 18, Paddy and I formed a band, She Talks to Angels (pictured above), with Shane Meadows, and we thought we were going to conquer the world.
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