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Example sentences for: empire

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

The Portuguese policy was to avoid armed strife and to develop a trade empire, rather than to conquer nations.
They built only a few settlements and roads in this part of Britain, which was very near the northernmost reach of their empire.
The new king, Louis XVIII, tried at first to reconcile the restored monarchy with the reforms of the Revolution and Napoleon’s empire.
However, the boundaries of the tsar's empire, for centuries known as “Russia,” were approximately the same as those of the Soviet Union; it was occasionally known as “the Russias,” as in the formula “Tsar of all the Russias”; thus, this particular confusion comes naturally.
Standard English meant the King's English, and in this outpost of Empire, announcers (though unseen) wore dinner suits to read the news and abided by the rulings of the English phonetician Daniel Jones, whose tremendously influential English Pronouncing Dictionary was first published in 1917.