How to Use vanquished in a Sentence

vanquished

adjective
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  • The vanquished slunk away, and the victor claimed the prize.
    — Lee Alan Dugatkin, Scientific American, 15 Apr. 2022
  • The vanquished would be those who have nothing but the present in their lives.
    — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 12 July 2020
  • The dozens of people who signed up could collect one of the native trees in exchange for proof of a vanquished pear tree.
    — New York Times, 26 Nov. 2021
  • That gave the North considerable leverage to impose its will on the vanquished traitors of the seditious South.
    — Damon Linker, TheWeek, 14 Dec. 2020
  • Some of Trump’s biggest fans view Bush as a vanquished foe; many on the left think there was never much of a difference between the two.
    — Brian Contreras, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2020
  • The fish-out-of-water hook is gone, as is Giselle’s identity as an overly nice specimen of a vanquished world.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 18 Nov. 2022
  • The internet’s unstated, vanquished opponent is us, the users who both consume and are the butts of the memes that phrase is often a response to.
    — Zak Jason, Wired, 24 Sep. 2021
  • Their sister, Antigone, in defiance of the new king’s edict, attempts to bury Polynices, the brother on the vanquished side, who has been declared an enemy of the state.
    — Teju Cole, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Hartselle’s balance has been a problem for all of its vanquished opponents.
    — al, 4 Nov. 2021
  • Even in Barcelona, Spain’s second-largest city and home to nine players from the vanquished national team, people poured into the streets waving flags, honking horns and setting off flares.
    — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2022
  • The vanquished river soon became a dumping ground and frequent crime scene, much of it fenced off, crisscrossed by bridges, hemmed in by railway tracks, highways and heavy industry.
    — Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Because the fields of play demand that there is a victor and a vanquished, the inherent experience of ending up as one or the other translates to many aspects of our non-sports lives.
    — Tara Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 1 July 2023
  • But the schedule makers decided not to pit the team against a storied rival or a vanquished opponent from last season’s playoffs.
    — Ken Belson, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The battle, which showcases the remarkable power and agility possessed by black bears, ends with the vanquished bruin running off at 36 seconds.
    — Pete Thomas, USA TODAY, 28 Apr. 2022
  • Like other vanquished cities, Rome’s buildings became a source of free material.
    — Amanda Foreman, WSJ, 15 Apr. 2021
  • Everywhere, the task of creating collective memorials is fraught, with the pandemic far from vanquished and new dead still being mourned.
    — Fox News, 15 Oct. 2021
  • Yes, Moody’s has issued a more Biden-friendly take on the pending bill, but why on earth would Mr. Manchin suddenly be touting the analysis from his vanquished opponent in the great inflation debate of 2021?
    — James Freeman, WSJ, 2 Aug. 2022
  • One campaign is over, and another has begun: an urgent mutiny against a sitting congressman, led partly by his vanquished opponent.
    — Dan Zak, Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2023
  • Audiences marveled at this feat of technological wizardry — that is, until one vanquished player took a closer look and discovered that there was a man hidden inside.
    — Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2021

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