Empire

//ˈɛm.paɪ̯ə̯//

"Empire" in a Sentence (25 examples)

Although 475AD is the year that shows the 'decline' of the Roman Empire, it is not the year of its 'fall'.

Romans did not want their empire to decline; but it did.

The empire absorbed all the small states.

This is how the great empire came into existence.

What's the height of the Empire State Building?

India was subject to the British Empire.

The government of the Inca Empire controlled everything.

He was the ruler of the Inca Empire.

The English breakfast was made popular by the architects of the British Empire.

The United States was once part of the British Empire.

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the Russian empire

States and empires fail when they are no longer the solution, they are the problem.

The Empire of Vietnam was a short-lived client state of Japan governing Vietnam between March 11 and August 23, 1945.

British people [...] continued to believe in empire. It was what gave Britain a unique role in the world, and in return Britain had drawn strength from its empire to enable it to survive two great wars that had wrecked so many of its competitors. Imperial management in the twentieth[…]

Since Britain imported mainly foodstuffs from its empire, no preferences could be granted to the colonies without Britain first imposing a tariff on foodstuffs imported from other countries.

the McDonald's fast food empire

“Revenues for Jackson's non-profit empire sky-rocketed from $4 million in 1997, to more than $14 million just two years later.”

The Mafia never forgave Castro but Lansky had already laid the foundations of a mob gambling empire all over the Caribbean […]

Each master whim maintains its hour of empire, And obstinately faithful to its dictates

The brutality, the unthinking, the unreflecting character of the barbarians were so great, that the new faith, the new feelings with which they had been inspired, exercised but a very slight empire over them.

With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter.

[…] could gain some political strength for the pope, but in so doing the pope would lose the uniqueness and supremacy of his empire over souls: […]

However, the first style of this century was known as Empire furniture. It was a derivative of the French Empire furniture, popular at that time.

...and for a moment he could not identify the lady in the Empire dress, nor imagine why her presence created such excitement among the initiated.

Wine from Portugal and France showed an irregular downward tendency over the period, while Empire wine from Australia and British South Africa rose rapidly, the former increasing nearly threefold between 1925 and 1927.

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