Example sentences for: courtiers

How can you use “courtiers” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • They found the place almost deserted, until suddenly the Raja of Badung, together with his family and hundreds of courtiers, emerged from the palace.

  • Si's favorite courtiers lead lives of jaw-dropping privilege.

  • It's even closer to a Jacobean drama of our own age: The Godfather (1972), which it emulates by cutting back-and-forth between queen and courtiers in prayer and the roundup and slaughter of Catholics on their privies, in bed with their mistresses, and so on.

  • Across on the mountainside is another terrace on which imperial courtiers and dignitaries would sit while enjoying dance performances and music recitals on the hondo’s broad terrace.

  • Similarly, the posh long “a” in grass (and indeed class ) was originally an affectation by courtiers in imitation of George IV: until then everyone in the country had pronounced class to rhyme with lass .


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