Example sentences for: crowned

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

  • Further to the south and slightly inland is the town of Santiago do Cacém, hemmed in by low-lying hills on three sides and crowned by a hilltop castle, which holds a macabre cemetery full of disinterred bones.

  • Palaces, pavilions, and pagodas crowned the skyline.

  • The Duke of Bragança was crowned King João IV in a festive ceremony that took place on Lisbon’s beautiful riverfront square, the Terreiro do Paço (today the Praça do Comércio).

  • In 1239, there was the procession of Louis IX, barefoot, carrying his holy treasure, Jesus’s Crown of Thorns (now in the Sainte-Chapelle); in 1430, it saw the humiliation of Henry VI of England (he was crowned King of France here; see page 15).

  • The huge Palais de Justice, heart of the centralized French legal system, stands on the site of the Roman palace where the Emperor Julian was crowned in 360.


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