7 sentences with 'crush'
Example sentences and phrases with the word crush and other words derived from it.
• « Some members of the League rose up in armed revolt, but the Athenians were able to crush the revolts with little difficulty. »
• « Two powerful politicians, Pompey and Crassus (both of whom had come to prominence as supporters of Lucius Cornelius Sulla), joined forces to crush Spartacus' slave revolt in 70 BC and were elected consuls because of their success. »
• « Pompey was one of the greatest Roman generals, and soon left to eliminate piracy in the Mediterranean, conquer the Jewish kingdom of Judea and crush an ongoing revolt in Anatolia. »
• « In 66 CE there was a major uprising against Rome. It took the imperial forces four years to crush the uprising, resulting in the greatest disaster in ancient Jewish history: the permanent destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem in 70 CE. »
• « By channelling taxes through their new and efficient bureaucracy, the Umayyads were able to support a large standing army. This allowed them not only to maintain pressure on the surrounding lands, but also to crush rebellions. »
• « To make matters worse, Charles V was too preoccupied with wars against France to spearhead a genuine effort to crush Lutheranism. »
• « A huge peasant uprising, led by a man claiming to be the "real" tsar, threatened to crush the forces of the real tsar before he was defeated in 1670. »