Example sentences for: kublai

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

  • It was modeled on one of the great Chinese monasteries of the time and built for a Chinese monk who was said to have interceded with the dreaded Kublai Khan to stop the Mongol invasion of Japan.

  • Built in 1306, the complex was long part of the Imperial College (Guozi Jian), and its courtyards teem with scores of carved stone tablets honoring students who passed the nationwide civil service examinations from the time of Kublai Khan.

  • The observatory supplanted one created by Kublai Khan.

  • Genghis Khan laid the groundwork, gradually uniting all China under his rule and leaving it to his famous grandson, Kublai Khan, to secure the Yuan Dynasty (1279–1368).

  • The capital’s first Drum Tower, from which the hours of the day were signaled with drums, was built here by Kublai Khan in 1272, rebuilt by Ming Emperor Yongle in 1420, and renovated under the Qing emperors.


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