8 sentences with 'crushed'
Example sentences and phrases with the word crushed and other words derived from it.
• « Several years of fighting followed, and the Persians eventually crushed the rebellion in 494 BC (the Persians deported many of the Greek rebels to India as punishment). »
• « Despite the final defeat of the Spartan force, this delay gave the Athenians enough time to get their navy into position, and they crushed the Persian navy in a single day. »
• « The Greek expedition was crushed and the Athenians responded by moving the treasure of the League, previously held on the Greek island of Delos (hence the "League of Delia"), to Athens itself, arguing that the treasure was too vulnerable if it remained on Delos. »
• « In 338 BC, following a full-scale Macedonian invasion, the Macedonian army crushed the coalition armies. »
• « Over the next two years, he crushed every Roman army sent against him, killing tens of thousands of Roman soldiers and marching dangerously close to Rome. »
• « The Bulgars destroyed the remaining Byzantine cities in the northern Balkans, massacred or enslaved the inhabitants and crushed the Byzantine armies. »
• « By 1256 the Seljuk territories had been crushed by the Mongols and a period of decades of brutal exploitation and plunder ensued. »