Example sentences for: emperors

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

  • A chapel on the left holds the tomb of the last of the Austro-Hungarian emperors, Charles I of Austria (and IV of Hungary), who died on Madeira in 1922.

  • A succession of weak and decadent emperors saw the Roman Empire fall gradually into decline and anarchy.

  • The Qing Dynasty Emperors modeled the rockeries in the Old Summer Palace in Beijing after those they saw in Suzhou’s Forest of Lions.

  • Two of the greatest Qing emperors, Kangxi and his grandson Qianlong, maintained the Ming Tombs and saw to the building of the Summer Palace, while the last great imperial ruler of China, the Empress Dowager Cixi, kept the Summer Palace and the Forbidden City in splendid condition into the early 20th century.

  • Even today the view of Longevity Hill and its scores of tile-roofed pavilions and towers, enjoyed from a pleasure barge drifting across Lake Kunming, is a scene from a dream of old China in which emperors and empresses led lives in gardens of unimaginable splendor.


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