Example Sentences

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The Queen’s Gambit has been conquering Netflix viewing records much like its protagonist, a chess player named Beth Harmon, conquers the chess world.

From Slate • Dec. 11, 2020

Fluent — and funny — in English, French, Hindi and Punjabi, the performer has been conquering audiences around the world by riffing on politics.

From New York Times • Nov. 8, 2019

While with one hand Russia has been conquering the world, with the other she has been creating the most magnificent masterpieces of humanity.

From Defenders of Democracy; contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own country, edited by the Gift book committee of the Militia of Mercy by Militia of Mercy (U.S.). Gift Book Committee

"He has been conquering and baptising the world, east and west," said the demon, "and is now in Egypt with Ricciardetto."

From Stories from the Italian Poets: with Lives of the Writers, Volume 1 by Dante Alighieri

A freedom-loving Ireland has been conquering her conquerors in the best sense.

From Irish Nationality by Green, Alice Stopford