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How to use the word vanquished in a Sentence?

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Thanks to our heroic vaccine effort, we’ve gained the upper hand against this virus.We can live our lives, our kids can go back to school, our economy is roaring back, so, today, while the virus hasn’t been vanquished, we know this: It no longer controls our lives.It no longer paralyzes our nation.

President Biden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Covid is never going to disappear. Anyone who says we're going to eradicate it or that it's vanquished, honestly, they're lying, covid is going to be around forever. We have to learn how to deal with it, and we have to make it something that is no longer as dangerous as it has been.

Megan Ranney

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Senate Intelligence Committee is retreat in the faceof an enemy that has not yet been vanquished and an abdication of American leadership.

Mitch McConnell

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

It is retreat in the face of an enemy that has not yet been vanquished and an abdication of American leadership, leaders in both parties, including me, offered criticism when the prior administration floated the concept of a reckless withdrawal from Syria and Afghanistan.

Mitch McConnell

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

It is retreat in the faceof an enemy that has not yet been vanquished and an abdication of American leadership, leaders in both parties, including me, offered criticism when the prior administration floated the concept of a reckless withdrawal from Syria and Afghanistan.

Mitch McConnell

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Precipitously withdrawing Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell forces from Afghanistan is a grave mistake. It is a retreat in the face of an enemy that has not yet been vanquished, an abdication of American leadership, leaders in both parties, including me, offered criticism when the prior administration floated a concept of a reckless withdrawal from Syria and Afghanistan. Those same voices in both parties should be equally concerned about the Joe Biden administration's announcement today.

Mitch McConnell

Found on CNN
3 years ago

No statue for the vanquished. (Pas de statue Pour les vaincus)

Charles de LEUSSE

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10 years ago

Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.

Sophie Swetchine

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10 years ago

If the victor had the gods on his side, the vanquished had Cato.

Lucan (Marcus Annaeus Lucanus) AD 39-65, The Civil War, bk. I, 128

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13 years ago

Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated.

Voltaire

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13 years ago

Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

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13 years ago

A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.

Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller

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14 years ago

I have supported my deviations with reasons I did not stop at mere doubt I have vanquished, I have uprooted, I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.

Marquis de Sade

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14 years ago

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