Example sentences for: wilhelm

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

  • On the Grunewald’s west side, along Havelchaussee, the Grunewaldturm (Grunewald Tower) is a Neo-Gothic tower built in 1897 to commemorate the 100th birthday of King Wilhelm I. You can climb the 205 steps to reach the 55-m- (180-ft- ) high observation platform for views as far as Potsdam.

  • The only things that look distinctive at first are Baron von Gloeden's and Wilhelm Plüschow's pedophilic tableaux of Greek and Italian youths decked out in laurel wreaths.

  • Buchanan also resurrects 75-year-old claims that the wily schemes of Wall Street financiers and munitions-makers plunged America into World War I. (And as Kaufman notes in the Weekly Standard , recent scholarship suggests Kaiser Wilhelm was more of a continental menace than previously recognized and that the war wasn't necessarily the "mistake" common wisdom once held it to be.)

  • By an irony of latterday history, the old railway station was the work of Franz Schwechten, the architect who created the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, that other noble ruin (see page 31).

  • 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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