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]."

  • The two empires agreed to divide the island, with the Portuguese ruling the eastern half and the Dutch the western.

  • As you know, the Roman and the Ottoman empires suffered from "grave internal weaknesses" but persisted for centuries.

  • It is very much in their collective interest to have the current regime survive, so that they can continue to profit from their ill-gotten empires.

  • In an analysis of Blair's "new internationalism" on its editorial page, Le Monde of Paris described it Friday as "a kind of humanitarian Wilsonism that wouldn't be limited to the right of peoples to self-determination that Woodrow Wilson wanted to impose on the defeated European empires after World War I ; it defends the rights of man, the rights of minorities, and cultural and religious freedoms."


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