Example sentences for: napoleonic

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

  • Built by Lord Dunmore in 1787–89, during the Napoleonic Wars, and named after the wife of George III, this is the largest fort in the Bahamas.

  • If Napoleon did not exactly “liberate” Italy, he did shake up the old conservatism from Lombardy to Naples by creating new universities and high schools, streamlining the bureaucracy, creating a new legal system with his Napoleonic Code, and generally awakening the forces of Italian nationalism.

  • The 1823 conclave of zelanti (zealot) cardinals elected arch-conservative Leo XII to help the papacy recover from its Napoleonic shock.

  • He closed off the Piazza’s west end with an Ala Napoleonica (Napoleonic Wing), through which you now enter the Museo Correr, devoted to paintings and documents of Venetian history.

  • They strike heroic, Napoleonic poses, hand to heart, which made these wafflers and compromisers look ridiculous after the debacle of the Civil War.


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