How to Use conquistador in a Sentence

conquistador

noun
  • Africans, both enslaved and free, some of whom had been among the first conquistadors.
    — Lizzie Wade, Science | AAAS, 12 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • The conquistadors were certain there was money to be made from cacao.
    — David Lyman, Detroit Free Press, 22 Sep. 2017
  • Its mascot was also changed from a conquistador to a rattlesnake.
    — Jemma Stephenson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Apr. 2025
  • The conquistador realizes a human skull could be hard enough to shatter the glass.
    — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 1 May 2026
  • Rodeo came to the New World with the conquistadors, along with horses and cattle.
    — Melissa Lyttle, Smithsonian, 13 Dec. 2017
  • 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
  • Over time, my conquistadors retired, and my pagan temples got demolished to make way for grocery stores.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 12 Feb. 2025
  • Spanish conquistadores raped women at will.
    — Greg Grandin september 23, Literary Hub, 23 Sep. 2025
  • The conquistadors described them as the stupidest animals in the world.
    — National Geographic, 26 May 2018
  • Over the next three years the conquistadors brought the whole of Mesoamerica under Spanish rule.
    — Jordana Rosenfeld, Encyclopedia Britannica, 17 June 2026
  • The conquistadors were the first in a long line of outsiders lured by Amazonia’s natural riches.
    — Stanley Stewart, Travel + Leisure, 10 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • Presumably, the conquistadors who sailed up the West Coast in the 1530s had read the book.
    — Dodie Kazanjian, Vogue, 1 Nov. 2017
  • 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 pork featured in the dish and widely consumed in the region was introduced by the Spanish conquistadors.
    — Serena Maria Daniels, CNN, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Subin takes us centuries back to Columbus, Cortes and Cook and the self-serving myths of conquistador godhood.
    — Washington Post, 28 Jan. 2022
  • With the arrival of the Spanish conquistadors, other spices were added, enriching its flavor.
    — Imelda García, Dallas Morning News, 18 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • These conquistadors and company were not an official army, received no pay as such, and stood to gain wealth only through their own efforts at exploitation.
    — Jordana Rosenfeld, Encyclopedia Britannica, 17 June 2026
  • McCarthy opens the film in the desert with the conquistador from Ohm’s imagination about to commit murder.
    — Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 15 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • Dávila, the conquistador of present-day northern Colombia, once read it out of earshot of a village just before launching a surprise attack.
    — Diego Javier Luis, The Conversation, 2 Oct. 2024
  • Legends of these sunny blooms are woven into the myths of native tribes, Spanish conquistadors and 49ers.
    — Elisa Parhad, latimes.com, 29 Oct. 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
  • In response, by the accounts of Diaz and Cortés himself, the conquistador sank the ships that had brought them to Mexico.
    — Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 5 Dec. 2024
  • But no, for all the talk of taking their game to all four corners of the world, football’s expansionists and modern-day conquistadores seem to have a strangely narrow worldview.
    — Oliver Kay, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2025
  • The shooting happened as protesters were trying to pull down a statue of Spanish conquistador Juan de Oñate.
    — John Blake, CNN, 18 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

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