Definition: 1. The act of conquering. 2. Success in mastering something difficult. 3. An act of winning the love or sexual favor of someone.
Use 'conquest' in a sentence:
1. One of the great achievements of the modern science and technology is the conquest of space.
2. Failure mechanisms in high temperature PTC heater and failure Conquest.
3. Originally, it was a Germanic language and then after the Norman Conquest in 1066, there was an enormous influx of French words.
4. The statement laid bare his ambition for world conquest.
5. China was built through a process of conquest and merging of diverse groups.
6. Parts of the region were inhabited by the ancient Mayan civilisation3 before the Spanish conquest in the 16th century.
7. If alien words could kill, English might not have survived the Norman conquest.
8. If you must live with uncongenial people, set to their conquest by love.
9. The conquest of inflation guarantees quick economic growth.
10. Jerusalem has seen endless conquests and occupations.
11. Her beauty won her many conquests.
12. "Might we add" latest conquest of Nate "to that resume?"
13. The play is being widely read as an allegory of imperialist conquest.
14. His conquest of Silesia gave Prussia's fledgling industries access to raw materials.
15. Coke's peaceful near-conquest of the world is one of the remarkable phenomena of the age.
16. The Norman Conquest and its consequences.
17. While the Greek world had expanded along the Mediterranean seas lanes, the Roman world was assembled by territorial conquest.
18. “But it’s a conquest, right?” he asks her.
19. "It's a conquest," she responds.
20. He's one of pretty Jane's many conquests.
21. Heritable names gradually became general in the three centuries following the Norman Conquest in 1066.
22. The term "nation-state", Hill and Spicer argue, blurs the internal cultural and linguistic multiplicity of states that could more precisely be called "conquest states".
23. She has made a conquest of a man.
24. I'm just one of his many conquests.
25. Fiery colors begin their yearly conquest of the hills, propelled by autumn winds.
26. The conquest of inflation has been the Government's economic priority.
27. He sought liberation and conquest on a greater scale.
28. The lightning conquest was followed by a guerrilla and then a civil war.
29. For a brief time, the conquest of space was seen as a human triumph, not a national one.
30. Mary Lasker called the war on cancer the country's next moon shot, the conquest of inner space.
31. And she may be the key to your next conquest.
32. War and conquest have been main contents in its diplomatic policy.
33. A miniature conquest of sorts, it was also an opportunity to sit and ponder away from the group.
34. The conquest is represented as a miraculous victory by God.
35. Angell was right to describe the belief that conquest pays as a great illusion.
36. Napoleon, confident of a quick victory, predicted the conquest of Russia in five weeks.
37. His ambition was world conquest, and he advanced at an astonishing rate.
38. He had realized that Britain could not have peace unless she returned at least some of her former conquests.
39. He was telling his tales of conquest in clubland.
40. In process of time, Rome became a great empire by conquest.
41. Rockets made possible the conquest of space.
42. "It is not one of conquest; it is exploration and contact," he says.
43. His conquest was not a difficult one.
44. This script is straight out of America's pioneering roots: the conquest of the frontier.
45. Rome can make the practical benefit of foreign wars of conquest.
46. The conquest of England by the Normans in 1066 is generally known as the Norman Conquest.
47. His most significant conquest at court was not a rich dowager but Sarah, who became his wife.
48. Let us be full of fight, power and conquest;
49. The British East India Company: From Trade to Conquest.
50. Despite his conquests, he remains lonely and isolated.
51. He had led the conquest of southern Poland in 1939.
52. After the Norman Conquest the forest became a royal hunting preserve.
53. The French empire had expanded largely through military conquest.
54. The chase is always much more exciting than the conquest anyway.
55. The conquest of inflation has been the Government's overriding economic priority for nearly 15 years.
56. The invasion is known as the Norman Conquest, and it is very important for two reasons.
57. Her latest conquest is an Italian who, interestingly enough, doesn't speak a word of his native language.
