Example sentences for: empires

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

  • More recently, they were subjects of both the Persian and Ottoman empires.

  • Because of nuclear weapons, the United States and the Soviet Union could not afford to do what great rival empires would previously have done: go to war over the places that really mattered to them, in this case Europe and China-Taiwan-Japan.

  • 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.

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

  • Occupied at different times by the Persian, Hun, Roman and Ottoman empires, as well as enjoying infrequent self-rule, the Caucasus was largely conquered in the 19 th century by Russia.


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