Sentence examples for vanquished after from inspiring English sources

Still, Dr. Henderson could not help but grit his teeth at the thought that his old foe, smallpox, might not be vanquished after all.

Then I remember that I do not pray because I do not believe, and realise that beneath this wondrous golden ceiling I have eased into another state and mystery has not been vanquished after all.

A stomach virus she had brought from the States was finally vanquished after a couple of days with an I.V. in her arm, but Ina was taking no chances with the crisp winter air, with her long-awaited homecoming so far from home.

Flintoff and Brett Lee fought each other magnificently and when victor congratulated vanquished after a brave effort had to end just two runs short of the target, it provided one of the most noble images of this or any other summer.

In the late 840s, he was also engaged in warfare against a neighbouring Armenian lord named Skleros, whom he finally vanquished after a protracted and bloody conflict.

The anime programs' success with boys is attributed by programmers to their mirroring of Japanese video games, in which enemies are vanquished one after another in sometimes graphic detail.

Last season Wolves defeated Manchester City after going eight league games without a win, won at Anfield after losing at home to Wigan, beat Manchester United on the back of three straight league defeats and vanquished Chelsea after a 2-0 loss at West Ham United.

Microsoft had vanquished Netscape after grabbing a huge chunk of the industry.

In the mid-1990s, the company vanquished the United Automobile Workers after a 17-month strike by 9,000 workers at eight factories; the union surrendered and accepted the company's concession-filled offer.

By 2006, when Max Brooks published his novel "World War Z" (from which the movie is very loosely adapted), the worst has already happened: the zombies have been vanquished, but only after destroying a good bit of the world's population.

The hosts had looked vanquished at 23-6 after six overs before Beaumont's attempted rescue act, but she fell in the 17th over with 44 still needed as the Sixers - who will face Perth Scorchers in Sunday's final - held on.