VANQUISH in a Sentence

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1. Defeat had rendered the vanquished greater.
2. That sinister victory was vanquished by liberty.
3. It is no honour for an eagle to vanquish a dove.
4. The victory was completed by the assassination of the vanquished.
5. The valour of Horatius in vanquishing the Curiatii deserved the highest reward.

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 Meanings and Examples of VANQUISH
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
vanquish
 v.  conquer; overcome; come out better in a competition
Classic Sentence: (49 in 4 pages)
1  The children left for school, and the old lady to call on Mrs. Harper and vanquish her realism with Tom's marvellous dream.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
2  I guessed, however, by his irregular and intercepted breathing, that he struggled to vanquish an excess of violent emotion.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
3  Commanded by the Emperor himself they could not fail to vanquish anyone, be it whom it might: so thought Rostov and most of the officers after the review.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII
4  Up and arise, goddess-born, and even with the setting stars address thy prayers to Juno as is meet, and vanquish her wrath and menaces with humble vows.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK EIGHTH
5  We have vanquished the hydra, and it is called the locomotive; we are on the point of vanquishing the griffin, we already grasp it, and it is called the balloon.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—THE HORIZON WHICH ONE BEHOLDS FROM THE SUMMIT O...
6  The valour of Horatius in vanquishing the Curiatii deserved the highest reward.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXIV.
7  Wellington, three-quarters vanquished, admired heroically.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN
8  The victory was completed by the assassination of the vanquished.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—THE CATASTROPHE
9  There, abandoned, vanquished, terrible, those gloomy squares endured their death-throes in formidable fashion.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIV—THE LAST SQUARE
10  Wellington was the Bareme of war; Napoleon was its Michael Angelo; and on this occasion, genius was vanquished by calculation.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI—QUOT LIBRAS IN DUCE?
11  That sinister victory was vanquished by liberty.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVII—IS WATERLOO TO BE CONSIDERED GOOD?
12  Defeat had rendered the vanquished greater.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVIII—A RECRUDESCENCE OF DIVINE RIGHT
13  The English occupied the encampment of the French; it is the usual sign of victory to sleep in the bed of the vanquished.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIX—THE BATTLE-FIELD AT NIGHT
14  When two o'clock in the morning struck, she declared herself vanquished, and said to her husband, "I'm going to bed."
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S H...
15  This strange revolution had hardly produced a shock; it had not even paid to vanquished royalty the honor of treating it as an enemy, and of shedding its blood.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—WELL CUT
Example Sentence:
1  The time it takes to vanquish is greatly increased by lots of unnecessary backtracking.
2  It is no honour for an eagle to vanquish a dove.
3  Then he said: "Something told me 't if I didn't come back and get--" He shuddered; then waved his nerveless hand with a vanquished gesture.
4  Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is below even defeat, and is born vanquished.