Example sentences for: crown

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

  • The monarchy was elective, rather than hereditary, which led to disputes over succession to the crown; and in one of these, the disaffected party looked to North Africa for an ally.

  • In everyday life, metaphors take many different forms, including similes (a nose as red as a cherry), proverbs (don't count your chickens before they're hatched), transfer phrases (make heavy weather of...) [,] wellerisms (everyone to his taste, as they said when the old woman kissed the cow), metonymy (the knife for surgery, the crown for royalty), synecdoches (sixty head of cattle, a cut-throat), and swearing (bloody bugger!)...

  • The Wall Street Journal editorial page urges him to crown his comeback by announcing that he will pay off his $300,000 ethics penalty using campaign funds and other donations instead of his own money--exactly the step that many analysts think will turn him back into a pariah.

  • Carmona’s history is also unique because the town was never under feudal rule, and was protected as a satellite of the crown.

  • The tiara (that is, a woman's ornamental crown of a more or less crescent shape) is not at all modern, but it is definitely both classical and neoclassical.


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