conquest - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • complete: He completed a conquest of the Munros more than ten years ago.
  • achieve: As ' Normans ' they achieved a second conquest of England in 1066.

Adjective modifier

  • colonial: There was a surplus of capital that found outlets but led to colonial conquest and two world wars.
  • Persian: Tamerlane celebrated his Persian conquest by magnificent festivities which continued for a week.
  • Arab: The history of the Arab conquest of Egypt has yet to be written.
  • imperial: He could achieve neither personal nor imperial conquest of this colony.
  • Islamic: This part of the empire what medieval development owed to Islamic conquest?
  • territorial: It is no mere territorial conquest that our enemies are seeing.

Modifies a noun

  • mode: The most unusual new change comes with the addition of a conquest mode, which is basically a wrapper for the multiplayer.

Noun used with modifier

  • carnival: Is the only sprung on the the carnival conquest.

Preposition: in

  • century: With other Caucasian tribes they fiercely resisted Russian conquest in the nineteenth century.

Preposition: of

  • territory: Conquest of territory was symbolized in colonial writings through metaphors of the conquest of black women's bodies.
  • power: The question was the advance to the conquest of power.
  • revolution: Yet some portion of the conquests of the revolution is always preserved.
  • island: And yet its conquest of the island -- and much of Guam's wildlife -- is complete.
  • land: In chapter 1 we get an account of the conquest of the land from the days of Joshua.
  • city: One of the town's largest festivals it commemorates the conquest of the city by Alfonso X of Castilla & Leon in 1243.

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