Example sentences for: throne

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

  • Inside, on a raised platform, the “Son of Heaven” sat on his Dragon Throne surrounded by symbols of longevity and power and cowering acolytes, all covered in a fog of incense.

  • The king is on the throne and the pound is worth a pound.

  • The extravagant ballroom and soaring allegorical frescoes like Giambattista Tiepolo’s Merit between Virtue and Nobility in the “Throne Room” (actually for Rezzonico weddings) and others, more wistful, by Guardi all catch the tone of a declining Venice and the frivolous lives of the idle rich.

  • The task of rebuilding fell to the power behind the throne, an ambitious and tyrannical minister known as Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, best remembered as the Marquês de Pombal.

  • So it was bitterly ironic when Elizabeth died without an heir and James, Mary’s Catholic son, inherited the English throne.


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