Example Sentences

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For every plague, horseman and reaper, there are several sparkling books on how we are subduing them.

From The Guardian • Feb. 26, 2018

You are subduing the wilderness, extending the frontier.

From The Blazed Trail by White, Stewart Edward

The inhabitants are subduing savage Nature; but, as time will surely show, their greatest achievement is the rearing of fearless men.

From The Greater Power by Dunton, W. Herbert