How to Use vanquish in a Sentence

vanquish

verb
  • They were vanquished in battle.
  • The old guard is vanquished and what’s new is in charge now.
    — Greg Cote january 5, Miami Herald, 5 Jan. 2026
  • And with that 81-game streak vanquished, a loss is just a bump in the road.
    — Neal Rubin, Detroit Free Press, 24 June 2024
  • But come July, the goal was no longer to vanquish covid at all costs.
    — Washington Post, 11 Aug. 2021
  • In any case, there will be lots to explore and plenty of foes to vanquish.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2021
  • With the monster vanquished, the stink of evil can begin to be scrubbed away.
    — Chris Wiley, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2024
  • There is nothing a world of best intentions can do to vanquish that hurt.
    — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 25 May 2021
  • No matter who won, there was sure to be a party shared by victors and the vanquished.
    — Arthur Hart, idahostatesman, 8 July 2017
  • Adorn a suit of armor and vanquish someone else dressed as a dragon, that sort of thing.
    — Longreads, 16 Sep. 2022
  • These tech tips can help vanquish the monsters in the closet—or create good vibes for teens.
    — Simon Hill, Wired, 15 Apr. 2021
  • Their work wasn’t done yet though; the pair may have vanquished the queens, but still had to finish off the title.
    — Todd Boss, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Sending a text that wishes someone the best can be the best way to vanquish a zombie.
    — Meredith Goldstein, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Aug. 2019
  • Quint—with rather little help from the police chief—vanquishes the great white but is killed in the process.
    — Tyler Austin Harper, The Atlantic, 26 June 2025
  • The goal was to deny the victors a mandate to govern the vanquished.
    — Made By History, Time, 9 Apr. 2025
  • There may be only one more chance left for Izzo to vanquish one of his chief nemeses.
    — Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 4 June 2021
  • No one in the field expects HIV to be vanquished in the next year or so.
    — Alice Park, Time, 8 Mar. 2018
  • On a subconscious level, if those movies could be vanquished, maybe Trump could be too.
    — Nate Jones, Vulture, 31 Jan. 2026
  • The bottom line is the villain in these legal dramas and the bottom line cannot be vanquished.
    — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Jan. 2020
  • Two types of white blood cells, T- and B-cells, tag-team to vanquish invading pathogens.
    — Allysia Finley, WSJ, 17 Jan. 2022
  • The winners are rewarded, and the losers risk being vanquished.
    — John Gallucci Jr, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Boredom would vanquish my attempts to conjure.
    — Literary Hub, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Djokovic took five long sets on Friday night to vanquish Alexander Zverev.
    — Gerald Marzorati, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2021
  • Return to Hyrule and vanquish the evil king Ganondorf in this open-world action game.
    — PCMAG, 19 Jan. 2023
  • The Oilers have clearly become the Kings’ white whale, the foe who must be vanquished.
    — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2024
  • Then the devil pops up, and over the course of about a half an hour, the infant Mary vanquishes the devil!
    — Jeremy Eichler, BostonGlobe.com, 15 June 2023
  • The other, inaudible and vanquished, The delay is just right, phase in essence.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 14 Apr. 2020
  • All the challengers had been vanquished long ago, in the primaries, and from that moment on this triumphant result was a cert.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 25 July 2024
  • And some seem to be focused more on the rollout of the vaccines that could eventually vanquish the threat.
    — Julie Watson and Terry Tang, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Jan. 2021
  • Competitors have three minutes to vanquish their enemy on the board.
    — Heather Abbott, CBS News, 17 Nov. 2025
  • Without abiding by the rule of law, a guiding beacon for our democracy will be vanquished.
    — Miles J. Zaremski, The Orlando Sentinel, 18 Jan. 2026

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