(12) It took also any sense I might have had that life and fate were controllable, that evil was vanquishable. (11) Uncertainty vanquishes notions of exclusivity and superiority. (10) Defeat at Trafalgar ended any hope of maritime supremacy for France, and thus any realistic hope of vanquishing the British, but Napoleon continued to steamroller his continental opponents. (9) He did not flinch as the verdict was read to a hushed court - and his hopes of divine intervention were vanquished. (8) Evidence from researchers at Hull University suggests many people benefit from relaxation therapy, hypnotherapy and guided imagery in which patients are taught to visualise their bodies' defences vanquishing tumours. (7) His troops had vanquished their opponents, now the Army and its prisoners were on their way home. (6) They discussed the neuroscientific and the behavioural, the syntactical and the imaginative, declared illiteracy to be utterly vanquishable, and showed why some teaching methodology works best. (5) Its report, in the spring, is likely to demand radical change in relations between the rich and poor world if abject poverty is to be vanquished. (4) Arguments are used constructively to clarify issues, not to vanquish opponents.
(3) Medical technology has enabled scientific medicine to vanquish its rivals in the medical marketplace in the quest for patient patronage and health insurance funds. (2) The sooner the world understands it, the sooner we will be able to vanquish these forces of evil. Send us feedback.(1) Life appears to vanquish the hope and ideals of all men, dragging in its train even the greatest, like Plato, Alexander, or Napoleon. These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'blistering.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. 2022 Inflation has proven to be one of the most blistering features of the pandemic recovery, one that weighs directly on households across the country. Russ Wiles, The Arizona Republic, 13 Mar. Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, Granted, the economy just grew at a blistering 6.9% annual rate in the fourth quarter, but many things have changed since then, including two more months so far in 2022 of continuing high inflation. 2022 Knapp and Alper are smart to surround Renée with a larger-than-expected backing band of seven players, three of whom make up a blistering horn section, anchored by the steady, admirably understated guitar played by Brendan Saadat. 2022 Pera, often cracking a blistering two-hand backhander, bolted to a 4-0 lead in the opening set in less than 15 minutes. 2022 That starting group was also shooting a blistering 61.9% from the field, also the best mark in the league in terms of offensive efficiency. 2022 Just three years ago, the distant sons of Gil Perreault opened with a blistering 8-2-0 mark, and then collapsed over the next 59 games (22-29-8). 2022 In this blistering psychological thriller, a first-year student at Oxford reckons with intergenerational trauma and repressed memory after a spate of flashbacks force her to relive the violence of her volatile mother’s childhood in Singapore. Recent Examples on the Web The blistering social satire, a dramatic comedy set at the fictional White Lotus resort in Hawaii, came into the evening with 20 Emmy nominations, one of the highest tallies for any show.
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