Example Sentences

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“The challenge of any country at war is you want complete vanquishment of the enemy, but in reality, it is probably going to be something short of that. The question is what,” Hale said.

From Washington Post • Feb. 22, 2023

Through fundraising activities and merchandise sales, the pair raised millions for what they called "cancer vanquishment".

From BBC • Sep. 8, 2017

Of all Sony's failed proprietary formats, Betamax has to be the most iconic — the videotape format's eventual vanquishment by VHS set the stage for countless media wars down the subsequent decades....

From The Verge • Nov. 10, 2015

Dispirited and battleworn, carrying their fallen leader, the maimed and wounded hobbled painfully along at the rear, the bitter ashes of vanquishment and defeat mingling with the dust from their stumbling vanguard.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

However, there was no disposition to let the matter rest here and acknowledge vanquishment at the hands of the village of Austin.

From Roughing It, Part 5. by Twain, Mark