Example sentences for: napoleonic

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

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

  • Nearly a hundred years later, during the Napoleonic Wars, Spanish ships fought alongside the French fleet against Lord Nelson at Cape Trafalgar (see page 46).

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

  • Anchored by Privateers’ Warehouse (Halifax was a popular haven for pirates from the Napoleonic Wars to the rum-running Prohibition Era of the 1920s) is a grand racing schooner, Bluenose II.

  • Same dart that was aimed at Austen, who penned slight little "parlor room dramas" instead of addressing the Napoleonic Wars!


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