Example sentences for: empire

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

  • Other societies had used slaves as teachers (Greece and Rome) and bureaucrats (the Ottoman Empire), but African slaves were brought to the New World to use their muscles, not their minds.

  • Down towards the river, the Jardim Botânico, with plants collected from across Portugal’s far-flung empire, is Portugal’s largest.

  • It wasn’t until a.d. 330, however, when the newly converted Emperor Constantine made Byzantium, renamed Constantinople, capital of his Eastern Empire that Christianity was assured of its dominant role in future Greek life.

  • In six years, he has turned a tiny California record store into a multimedia empire.

  • As the first king of all Hawaii, Kamehameha established a new empire that preserved the old ways, including the rituals performed at the outdoor temples (heiau), while creating an overlay of British-style government.


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