Explore Conquest through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like success or conquering. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Conquest in a sentence
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Conquest meaning
- An act or instance of achieving victory through combat; the subjugation of an enemy.
- An act or instance of gaining control of or mastery over something, overcoming obstacles.
- That which is conquered; possession gained by mental or physical effort, force, or struggle.
Synonyms of Conquest
Using Conquest
- The main meaning on this page is: An act or instance of achieving victory through combat; the subjugation of an enemy. | An act or instance of gaining control of or mastery over something, overcoming obstacles. | That which is conquered; possession gained by mental or physical effort, force, or struggle.
- Useful related words include: success, conquering, subjection, subjugation.
- In the example corpus, conquest often appears in combinations such as: conquest of, the conquest, conquest and.
Context around Conquest
- Average sentence length in these examples: 28.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 11 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Conquest
- In this selection, "conquest" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 28.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, norman, spanish, strait, mode, regarding and anglo stand out and add context to how "conquest" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include for the conquest and exploitation and association of conquest regarding south. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "conquest" sits close to words such as buckingham, calculate and curse, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with conquest
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
We hold it by conquest, and by treaty after conquest. (10 words)
Japanese warriors ran wild for six months after Pearl Harbor, scooping up conquest after conquest. (15 words)
Conquest of Peru By 1524 an association of conquest regarding South America was formalized among Almagro, Pizarro and Luque. (19 words)
In this school of thought, Conquest, the white horse's rider, is sometimes identified as a symbol of Parthian forces: Conquest carries a bow, and the Parthian Empire was at that time known for its mounted warriors and their skill with bow and arrow. (44 words)
As the project reaches its halfway point, the end goal is to possibly uncover evidence of the Norman conquest at the Penrith site after identifying a series of 'lumps and bumps' which are believed to be a medieval castle and village. (41 words)
City, seven points clear of Arsenal with two games left, would cement their status as one of English football’s greatest-ever teams if they can add the FA Cup and Champions League to their latest Premier League conquest. (39 words)
Aren’t we in the West the ones imposing sanctions on him for waging a genocidal war of conquest against Ukraine? (21 words)
Example sentences (20)
We hold it by conquest, and by treaty after conquest.
While many of 's usual suspects are still strong in Conquest, there are some cards with a newfound viability thanks to how they fit into Conquest's mind games and psychological warfare.
Japanese warriors ran wild for six months after Pearl Harbor, scooping up conquest after conquest.
The Open Beta will showcase the Rotterdam map on Conquest mode as well as the Arctic Fjord map on both Conquest and Grand Operations.
Also, the use of Anglo-Saxon disguises the extent to which people identified as Anglo-Scandinavian after the Viking age or the conquest of 1016, or as Anglo-Norman after the Norman conquest.
Beginning in 1492, the straits began to play a certain cultural role in acting as a barrier against cross-strait conquest and the flow of culture and language that would naturally follow such a conquest.
But not until the Spanish conquest of Peru was the conquest of the Aztecs matched in scope by the victory over the Inca empire in 1532.
Conquest of Peru By 1524 an association of conquest regarding South America was formalized among Almagro, Pizarro and Luque.
He claimed that the Near Eastern race had been "bred not so much for the conquest and exploitation of nature as it was for the conquest and exploitation of people".
He was persuaded of Ælfheah's sanctity, Williams English and the Norman Conquest p. 137 but Ælfheah and Augustine of Canterbury were the only pre-conquest Anglo-Saxon archbishops kept on Canterbury's calendar of saints.
In this school of thought, Conquest, the white horse's rider, is sometimes identified as a symbol of Parthian forces: Conquest carries a bow, and the Parthian Empire was at that time known for its mounted warriors and their skill with bow and arrow.
AAM was also recently named the new axle supplier for GM's next-generation Colorado and Canyon programs, a conquest business win for us.
Aren’t we in the West the ones imposing sanctions on him for waging a genocidal war of conquest against Ukraine?
As the project reaches its halfway point, the end goal is to possibly uncover evidence of the Norman conquest at the Penrith site after identifying a series of 'lumps and bumps' which are believed to be a medieval castle and village.
But the Kremlin’s main objective in the east is conquest, and Russian forces have been stymied by the Ukrainian defenders.
City, seven points clear of Arsenal with two games left, would cement their status as one of English football’s greatest-ever teams if they can add the FA Cup and Champions League to their latest Premier League conquest.
Despite the potential for some showers, a nice crowd gathered for the Carry the Cross Christian concert featuring King’s Conquest and Rhett Walker last Friday evening.
Evidence at the Caleta de Arriba site points to a violent death centuries ago which could pre-date the 15th century Spanish conquest of the archipelago off northwest Africa.
File photo of Turkish soldiers and performers at a May 2015 ceremony commemorating the anniversary of the conquest of Constantinople by the Ottoman Turks.
Inevitably, this sense of the league having been so long the preserve of can dull to just how bejeweled the conquest will be should they seal it at Tynecastle this weekend.
Common combinations with conquest
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- conquest of 55×
- the conquest 42×
- conquest and 22×
- of conquest 20×
- norman conquest 13×
- and conquest 8×
- by conquest 6×
- his conquest 6×
- spanish conquest 5×
- for conquest 5×