Example sentences for: prussia

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

  • 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.

  • A third partition crushed Poland and placed the country under the control of Austria, Prussia, and Russia.

  • Prussia’s success during the Franco-Prussian War (1870–1871) placed it at the head of a new united Germany.

  • Warsaw went to Prussia, Kraków to Austria.

  • With his ambition of uniting the states of Brandenburg and Prussia, it was the Great Elector Friedrich Wilhelm (1640–1688) who prepared Berlin to become a strong capital, and fortified it as a garrison town.


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