Example sentences for: princes

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

  • The Princes’ Chapel (Cappella dei Principi) is a piece of 17th-century Baroque bombast in flamboyant multi-colored marbles, for which the altar was not completed, appropriately enough, until 1939.

  • Less than one kilometer (half a mile) from the western end of Princes Street is Dean Village.

  • Without giving up demands for self-determination, India fought at Britain’s side in World War I, and more than one Prussian general blinked at Rajput and Sikh princes leading an Indian infantry through the trenches of France.

  • In 1729 Benjamin Franklin said a journalist ought to be qualified with an extensive acquaintance with languages, a great easiness and command of writing and relating things clearly and intelligibly, and, in a few words, he should be able to speak of war both by land and sea, be well acquainted with geography, with the history of the time, with the several interests of princes and states, the secrets of courts, and the manners and customs of all nations.

  • For their churches and private palaces, popes and princes have stripped the Colosseum of its precious marble, travertine, and metal.


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