Example sentences for: warlord

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

  • The Edo period extended from the end of the civil wars of the 16 th century (the source of all samurai films) and the consolidation of power under the warlord Tokugawa Ieyasu, to the Meiji Restoration, when Japan adopted something resembling a parliamentary monarchy under the emperor.

  • Rikyu apparently incurred the warlord’s wrath by placing a statue of himself in the large main gate, under which Hideyoshi would have had to pass — an intolerable affront to a famously proud warrior.

  • Unfortunately, the coffin was desecrated in 1928 by a warlord who also plundered the tomb’s treasures, including 25,000 pearls and a burial quilt studded with rare pearls.

  • By the autumn of 1993, U.S. commanders concluded that the main source of trouble was a warlord, Mohammed Farrah Aidid.

  • A warlord seized power in Beijing, hoping to restore the monarchy.


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