Sentence examples for the conquering from inspiring English sources
verb
To defeat in combat; to subjugate.
- In 1453, the Ottoman Empire conquered Istanbul.
There we are always the conquering puppet.
Ever the conquering diplomatic hero, I decided to intervene.
The tearful, regretful Jones officially replaced the conquering one.
The conquering Muslims at first mimicked the coinage of their predecessors.
Will he arrive at Belmont the conquering hero of the Kentucky Derby?
Mehmed used the conquering army to restore the physical structure of the city.
It includes "The Conquering Family," "The Three Edwards," "The Magnificent Century" and "The Last Plantagenets".
Working in her garden in America, for pleasure, the writer has joined the conquering class.
Unsurprisingly, Herod was happy to escort the conquering Octavian directly to the Egyptian border.
Later, in Wales, the conquering English endured some 200 years of acrimonious struggle before they prevailed.
But it's also a reminder that domestication isn't just the conquering of one species by another.
