How to Use conquistador in a Sentence

conquistador

noun
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  • Presumably, the conquistadors who sailed up the West Coast in the 1530s had read the book.
    — Dodie Kazanjian, Vogue, 1 Nov. 2017
  • Africans, both enslaved and free, some of whom had been among the first conquistadors.
    — Lizzie Wade, Science | AAAS, 12 Apr. 2018
  • Rodeo came to the New World with the conquistadors, along with horses and cattle.
    — Melissa Lyttle, Smithsonian, 13 Dec. 2017
  • Note that the priests there had the conquistadors to augment their efforts.
    — Nicholas Frankovich, National Review, 21 Sep. 2017
  • The name and the friendly conquistador mascot have gone away.
    — al, 23 June 2022
  • Some of the enslaved Africans the conquistador brought with him escaped and sought refuge with Native tribes.
    — Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 June 2022
  • The coin has the conquistador Vasco Núñez de Balboa on it.
    — Ashley Maria Bermúdez / Special To The Sentinel, orlandosentinel.com, 25 Nov. 2021
  • Subin takes us centuries back to Columbus, Cortes and Cook and the self-serving myths of conquistador godhood.
    — Washington Post, 28 Jan. 2022
  • Enslaved as a child, she was given as a teenager to Hernán Cortés, the Spanish conquistador.
    — Deborah Martin, San Antonio Express-News, 12 Oct. 2022
  • The conquistadors were certain there was money to be made from cacao.
    — David Lyman, Detroit Free Press, 22 Sep. 2017
  • The pork featured in the dish and widely consumed in the region was introduced by the Spanish conquistadors.
    — Serena Maria Daniels, CNN, 23 Mar. 2023
  • The island dates all the way back to the 15th century when it was first discovered by Spanish conquistadors.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 8 Mar. 2023
  • That story begins in 1588, when the conquistador Pizarro brought back to Spain and presented at the royal court this strange little food.
    — Bill St. John, The Denver Post, 9 Oct. 2019
  • Smallpox seems to have reached the Incan Empire before the Spaniards did; the infection raced from one settlement to the next faster than the conquistadores could travel.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2020
  • The conquistadors described them as the stupidest animals in the world.
    — National Geographic, 26 May 2018
  • Those skulls, the conquistadors assumed, were what remained of men who had been defeated in battle.
    — Cleve R. Wootson Jr., Washington Post, 4 July 2017
  • Conquistadors took the tubers and ignored the ways the plants and their diseases had been managed in complex crop rotations for centuries.
    — Raj Patel, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2017
  • Legends of these sunny blooms are woven into the myths of native tribes, Spanish conquistadors and 49ers.
    — Elisa Parhad, latimes.com, 29 Oct. 2017
  • Four of the cities exist today; a fifth, Nambija, was rediscovered in 1981 when a group of boys hunting wild boars stumbled across the ruins of a mine dug by the conquistadors.
    — Laura Millan Lombrana, Bloomberg.com, 20 Dec. 2017
  • Their efforts to pull down a monument of Spanish conquistador Juan de Oñate suddenly stopped as four shots rang out.
    — Katie Shepherd, Anchorage Daily News, 16 June 2020
  • Spanish conquistadores came to this region in the 16th century seeking the fabled Seven Cities of Gold.
    — Jim Robbins, New York Times, 6 Nov. 2019
  • American Green Berets helped train a special-forces unit called the kaibiles, named for a Mam leader who had evaded capture by Spanish conquistadors.
    — Rachel Nolan, The New Yorker, 30 Dec. 2019
  • The shooting happened as protesters were trying to pull down a statue of Spanish conquistador Juan de Oñate.
    — John Blake, CNN, 18 Mar. 2023
  • Her reply was a reflection of her moxie, not of a sincere desire to raise an army of Bengali-speaking conquistadors.
    — Reihan Salam, WSJ, 21 Sep. 2018
  • But not even brazen and embattled President Trump has lofty conquistador ambitions, only to plant his name on a tower and a golf course.
    — Fabiola Santiago, miamiherald, 22 Aug. 2017
  • After a small battle with soldiers sent to negotiate, the conquistador Don Juan Oñate attacked the mesa and killed hundreds of men, women and children.
    — Jim Robbins, New York Times, 6 Nov. 2019
  • In 1532, Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro and a small band of soldiers landed on the northwestern coast of Peru.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 16 May 2018
  • Established more than 5,700 years ago, the site was once home to the Ohlone tribe before being taken over by Spanish conquistadors and American settlers.
    — Sierra Lopez, The Mercury News, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Dorantes was an enslaved explorer from the 1500s who Spanish conquistadors used for scouting and interpreting in the West, long before enslaved Africans were brought to the colonies.
    — Kira Caspers, The Arizona Republic, 19 June 2024
  • The Spanish conquistador Francisco de Orellana also described seeing cities in the Amazon in 1542.
    — Howard Lee, Ars Technica, 2 June 2024

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