Example Sentences

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While the loss was relatively small compared with Hulagu’s overall force, it was enough to save parts of the unconquered Islamic world from further Mongol attack.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

LVIV, Ukraine — The war in Ukraine enters its second month with the besieged city of Mariupol still unconquered, though leveled.

From Salon • Mar. 24, 2022

By 2017, Saraqib was one of the few places in Idlib unconquered by Nusra.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 3, 2018

Beautiful and poor in their near-total isolation, nothing changes on these palm-fringed specks that remained unconquered by the Portuguese colonizers until well into the 1930s.

From New York Times • Oct. 23, 2015

Oversize volumes contained maps of lands Cora had never heard of, the outlines of the unconquered world.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead