Sentence examples for were conquered from inspiring English sources
verb
To defeat in combat; to subjugate.
- In 1453, the Ottoman Empire conquered Istanbul.
Diphtheria, mumps, measles and polio were conquered, and pneumonia and heart attacks became far less deadly.
The Anti-Emmy award The stars of American film and TV came, saw – and were conquered.
Many countries were conquered by the United States and its allies in the name of freedom.
The Balearics were conquered by the Vandals in 526 and fell to the Byzantines in 534.
In 496 they were conquered by Clovis and incorporated into his Frankish dominions.
Then in the 1967 war, even these small strips were conquered with tanks and platoons.
In the late 8th century the Saxons were conquered and Christianized by the Frankish ruler Charlemagne.
The Pyu were conquered by a neighbouring kingdom, probably before ad 900.
The Muẓaffarids were conquered by Timur (Tamerlane) in the late 1300s.
One by one, the enemies of the new union were conquered.
Between these walls, Leonardo Da Vinci and Donato Bramante once laboured; these very buttresses were conquered by Napoleon.
