Example sentences for: prussia

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

  • This was further enhanced by the Great Elector’s son, who in 1701 crowned himself in Königsberg (now Kaliningrad) King Friedrich in (not of) Prussia.

  • Russia invaded Poland and in 1792-1793 it, along with Prussia, imposed a second partition of Poland, annulling the constitution and essentially divying up the country between them.

  • Friedrich der Große (Frederick the Great, 1740–1786), King of (not just in) Prussia, took his realm to the forefront of European politics and had little time for Berlin.

  • When John Adams became president in 1797, he appointed his son to the even more prestigious post of minister to Prussia.

  • A well-known quip has it that early modern Prussia wasn't so much a state with an army, as an army with a state.


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