Example sentences for: dukes

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

  • Later, the island became part of the commercial empires of Pisa, Genoa, and the Spanish, and was annexed in 1718 by the dukes of Savoy.

  • The area was dominated in the past by the papacy, which conquered the Lombard dukes of Spoleto in the Middle Ages, Perugia in the 16th century, and held sway until the unification of Italy.

  • You get a sense of the dukes’ grandeur among the Renaissance palazzi of the Corso Ercole I d’Este, part of a 15th-century urban expansion, Addizione Erculea, that was one of the most ambitious pieces of town planning of its age.

  • Towards the end of the first millennium the land we now call the Netherlands was ruled by a number of feudal lords — assorted counts, dukes, and bishops who had total power over the land and the people who lived on it.

  • (I'm duty-bound to point out, by the way, that Bush's answers--General and Lee--may inadvertently tell us something about him: He's a Dukes of Hazzard fan.)


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