Example Sentences

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The Shanghai Masters champion continued his sensational run of form by ousting Carlos Alcaraz's British vanquisher Cameron Norrie in straight sets in the opening match on centre court.

From Barron's • Oct. 30, 2025

For instance: Anyone who’s seen “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” knows it’s not the viridian vanquisher whose wrath Gawain should fear, but the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog!

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 7, 2021

The most urgent painting here is one of the Met’s very first purchases: Anthony van Dyck’s “Saint Rosalia,” vanquisher of a 17th-century epidemic, whom I’ve adopted as my Covid protectress.

From New York Times • Dec. 4, 2020

In his day, Winfield Scott was praised by no less an authority than the Duke of Wellington, vanquisher of Napoleon at Waterloo, as “the greatest living soldier.”

From Washington Post • Jun. 16, 2020

The victor was always to be vanquished, the vanquisher was always to be victor.

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac