Example Sentences

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As current economic trends have vanquished the once middle-class dream of a vacation cabin, the Brothertons want the resort to serve that function for future generations.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 1, 2023

That was when China enjoyed a flurry of spending after seeming to have vanquished Covid with the lockdown in Wuhan.

From New York Times • Feb. 5, 2023

He added: "I think it is grossly irresponsible of the UK government to withdraw this funding, collapsing what has definitely been a pillar of our response to this virus, before we have vanquished this virus."

From BBC • Feb. 23, 2022

The living have vanquished the dead, and I have become a fantasy enthusiast.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 29, 2019

Evidently Jason's success with the little primaries is going to his head, for to-day he attacked Hen Salyer, who is a head taller, and would have vanquished him had not Keats come to the rescue.

From Mothering on Perilous by Furman, Lucy S.