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subjugate - use in sentences
Object
- population: These Norman castles gave the Normans of 1066 power bases from which they could subjugate the English population.
- other: Such a society needs to subjugate others, to establish some visible superiority.
- country: For non-Europeans from imperially subjugated countries, the symbols of subordination were even more extensive than those applied to European proletarians.
- knowledge: Their memory is activated against dominant opinions; they enact a rebellion of subjugated knowledges.
Modifying Another Word
- totally: The aim is to totally subjugate this strategic region, with its rich oil and gas deposits, to US will.
- fully: Fortunately for Iraq, Saddam has failed miserably in his attempts to fully subjugate the people of Iraq.
Preposition: by
- prince: An ignorant and impoverished population was more readily subjugated by Princes of the Church.
- man: Social animals are the most easily subjugated by man, and several species of Canidae hunt in packs.
Modifying Another Word
- not: In the west I subjugated mighty lands Which the kings before me had not subjugated.
- finally: It was restored eleven years later, but by the end of the century it was finally subjugated to the ultimate will of Parliament.
- always: Although it relied on mass mobilization, this was never a central plank of its strategy, and was always subjugated to diplomacy.
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