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How to use vanquish in a sentence

10 example sentences · verb

Vanquish means to defeat (someone); to overcome. Example: “"Aspheterism" would vanquish materialism and help raise a generation of children untainted by corrupt values.”

More sentences with vanquish

  • "Aspheterism" would vanquish materialism and help raise a generation of children untainted by corrupt values.2015, Sheldon Spear, “French and British Refugees on the Susquehanna”, in Pennsylvania Histories: Two Hundred Years of Personalities and…. From the entry aspheterism
  • I have no choice but to take up the foil once again and vanquish this rake.2009, The Onion, 2:27 from the start, in Bad Boy Fencing Star Implicated In Yet Another Jewel Heist, spoken by Reggie Greengrass (Beau…. From the entry rake
  • Wolfe saw himself in this bardlike role, vanquishing death and oblivion with timeless words.1968, Andrew Turnbull, Thomas Wolfe. From the entry bardlike
  • I vanquish a helpful egg and forthwith make divers gossipish visits about the city.1924, American Printer and Lithographer, volume 78. From the entry gossipish
  • No abbayah could vanquish this resilient, gleaming woman.2008, Qanta Ahmed, In the land of invisible women, page 66. From the entry unquashable
  • To kill these a band of adventurers need to hunt down the creature hurling a combined strength to vanquish it.1984, Simon Rockman, “Rockman Files: MUD, MUD, Glorious MUD”, in Games Computing, volume April 1984, page 89. From the entry mobile
  • Finally, 'that cruel and fervent enemy of nature, the deadly corruption, did utterly vanquish and overcome the pure and friendful blood, without all manner of physical help and remedy.'2013, John Guy, The Children of Henry VIII. From the entry friendful
  • Each week the good guys fight the bad guys and vanquish them in a mecha battle, only to have the bad guys reappear intact the following week.2007, Frenchy Lunning, Mechademia 2: Networks of Desire. From the entry mecha
  • In some Chippewa stories, a young girl vanquishes this monster by forcing boiling lard down its throat, thereby releasing the human at the core of ice.1984, Louise Erdrich, “Windigo”, in Jacklight, New York, N.Y.: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, →ISBN. From the entry windigo
  • The sun came early, causing him to turn over in protest, but in going to sleep he had learned to vanquish light, and now the light could not rewake him.1958, T[erence] H[anbury] White, chapter III, in The Once and Future King, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, book I (The Sword…. From the entry rewake

Meaning of vanquish

  1. verb To defeat (someone); to overcome.

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Questions about vanquish in a sentence

How do you use vanquish in a sentence?
Vanquish is used as a verb. For example: “"Aspheterism" would vanquish materialism and help raise a generation of children untainted by corrupt values.”
What is a short sentence with vanquish?
“No abbayah could vanquish this resilient, gleaming woman.”
What does vanquish mean?
Vanquish means to defeat (someone); to overcome.

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