Example sentences for: empires

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

  • "We had every right, and we were more than right--right, just, and moral--to smash both of those evil empires [Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan]."

  • 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.

  • There is clear evidence of trade with the Tarascan, Mixtec, and Zapotec empires that extended to the north and south of Acapulco prior to Mexico’s conquest by Spain.

  • (Meanwhile we should not overlook that hyrcan major is also a fine portmanteau word, with its references to Hyrcania, a province of the ancient Persian and Parthian empires, and Ursa Major, the Great Bear constellation.)

  • Both were evil empires; and both were essentially national socialist experiments.


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