Example sentences for: emperor

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

  • The attitude expressed by Emperor Qianlong at Britian’s first attempt to open trade with China in 1793 continued to prevail: “We possess all things,” said the emperor, “I set no value on objects strange or ingenious, and have no use for your country’s manufactures.”

  • Five days later the Japanese people heard the voice of Emperor Hirohito, in his first radio broadcast, announcing that “the war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan’s advantage. ”

  • But--and Levin is likely to find this praise more infuriating than any criticism--had he chosen to play his "Emperor " on a Steinway or a Bosendorfer, he might have given us one of the greatest recordings of the piece ever put on disc.

  • The city was inaugurated with great ceremony in 330 and, in honour of the emperor, was renamed Constantinople.

  • Even his titles--"The Revolutionists Stop for Orangeade," "The Emperor of Ice-Cream"--undercut their own pomposity.


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