Sentence examples for vanquish her from inspiring English sources

But she did not see the need to be in dress code on this given Sunday, when her only commitment was to vanquish her competition answering multiple-choice questions on obscure biblical passages.

It's a backstager: Will poor hard-working Nina (Natalie Portman) get the white-black double lead role of "Swan Lake," pull off its taxing demands, survive till the first night and vanquish her rival, not to mention her terrors?

Barker, whose husband is a retired physician-researcher at the National Institutes of Health, decided to try various over-the-counter remedies, hoping she might hit on one that would vanquish her strange pain.

Unable to vanquish her problems with spells or retreat to the other side of the world Tracy turns to her imagination to escape her problems, writing in her diary about the adventures she and her friends and family embark upon.

With the Conservative Party endorsement increasingly significant to success in New York Republican politics, Ms. Long was able to vanquish her chief rival in the primary: Representative Bob Turner of Queens, who gained national attention last year when he won the Ninth District House seat vacated by Anthony D. Weiner, becoming the first Republican to represent the area in 91 years.

The '80s weren't even over by the time we were handed iconic portrayals of the city during the leveraged buyout years: Tom Wolfe's "Bonfire of the Vanities"; Mike Nichols's "Working Girl," the story of a Staten Island secretary whose intuitive business sense allows her to vanquish her slimy, patrician investment-banker boss.

But none of the countless creams she has tried have vanquished her dark circles, she said.

There are also busts depicting her two famous lovers, Caesar and Antony, and the Roman emperor who vanquished her, Octavian.

Ms. Cohen vanquished her final opponent, poker veteran Huck Seed, with an ace-high flush, topping Mr. Seed's straight.

The lascivious fury who corrupted Caesar and unmanned Antony was largely an invention of the man who vanquished her — Octavian, the future Augustus — and his apologists.

Impressively, it's also vanquished her own previous best seller, "Seabiscuit," which logged 30 weeks on the list back in 2001-2 before making way for the paperback edition.