Example Sentences

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In some categories, battery-powered machines are gaining market share faster than electric cars are conquering the auto world.

From New York Times • May 15, 2022

Karam takes pride in the film’s horror elements because they help viewers visualize “how people are conquering or coping with their fears in a story that’s scary.”

From New York Times • Nov. 28, 2021

The African countries Ghana and Senegal are conquering the coronavirus.

From Salon • May 26, 2020

That’s something of a bummer for us—the show is always fun when our ad men are conquering new terrain—but it’s a bigger bummer for the people who work there.

From Slate • Apr. 17, 2012

“It takes more people than the sea, doesn’t it, Nat? I wonder if doctors will ever find a way to conquer it—the way they are conquering smallpox?”

From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham