Example sentences for: napoleon

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

  • Caution was the watchword among Italian rulers restored to their lands after Napoleon’s defeat.

  • This time the epicenter was Paris, and the cause Napoleon.

  • The armies of Frederick’s successors proved to be no match for Napoleon’s Grande Armée, however, and as the French advanced through eastern Germany in 1806, Berlin’s bureaucracy, court, and bourgeoisie fled to the country.

  • He also acted in films; his performances are few but indelible, from his matinee-idol turn as the empathetic monk in Carl Theodor Dreyer's The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) to his part as Marat in Abel Gance's Napoleon (1927), in which, at one point, he breaks off a discussion by getting down on all fours and barking like a dog.

  • The supreme self-made man, Bonaparte in 1804 became Emperor Napoleon at a coronation ceremony in which he audaciously took the crown of golden laurels from the pope and placed it on his own head.


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