How to Use emperor in a Sentence

emperor

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  • The bodies of the emperor and his wife remain interred in the Taj to this day.
    — Margot Bigg, Travel + Leisure, 28 Jan. 2024
  • The emperor pleads with us that to try and withhold change is a mistake of the most basic kind.
    — Theodore McDarrah, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Shame on any of them who don’t have the courage to stand beside Liz Cheney and tell the truth — the emperor wears no clothes.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 22 Jan. 2024
  • And for the viewers sharp-eyed enough to catch it, there’s a god-emperor-has-no-clothes joke tucked into the setting.
    — Vulture, 2 Jan. 2023
  • And then the rare emperor tamarin monkeys went missing.
    — Ed Lavandera, CNN, 6 Feb. 2023
  • The emperor died by suicide as the British overpowered his forces.
    — Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 May 2023
  • The group elects an emperor and an empress who serve as fund-raising chairs.
    — Jenny Block, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2023
  • The same process led to emperors from Spain, and, eventually, Libya.
    — Christopher Tayler, Harper's Magazine, 18 Dec. 2023
  • Roman emperors once lived there, and their crumbling fortress walls still wind through the landscape.
    — Leif Wenar, WIRED, 2 Apr. 2024
  • The emperor died suddenly at age 36, according to the study.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Two emperor tamarin monkeys were stolen from their habitat at the Dallas Zoo last month.
    — Bynadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 8 Feb. 2023
  • The lemurs, whose names have not been announced, aren’t the only new primates at the zoo: On Wednesday, the zoo announced the birth of twin emperor tamarin monkeys on March 29.
    — Isabella Volmert, Dallas News, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Two emperor tamarin monkeys missing from the Dallas Zoo were found Tuesday, the zoo said.
    — Andi Babineau, CNN, 31 Jan. 2023
  • At its center sits the mausoleum of Augustus, the nephew of Julius Caesar and the first Roman emperor, who ruled for four decades.
    — Liam Hess, Vogue, 5 July 2023
  • Two emperor tamarin monkeys were stolen from their habitat at the Dallas Zoo, the latest in a string of bizarre incidents at the zoo this month.
    — Paul Best, Fox News, 31 Jan. 2023
  • Celebrate the birthday of emperor, believed to be ruler of all heavens and Earth.
    — Kurt Snibbe, Orange County Register, 8 Feb. 2024
  • One of the oldest (and priciest) pieces is a pendant depicting the Roman emperor Claudius.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Staffers noticed two of the emperor tamarins were missing from their enclosure about 7 a.m.
    — Timothy Bella, Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2023
  • The story focuses on the French emperor through the lens of his relationship to his first wife, Empress Joséphine.
    — Zack Sharf, Variety, 21 Dec. 2022
  • The monkeys are believed to get their name from German emperor Wilhelm II, who had a mustache.
    — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2023
  • In order to succeed, Maren must serve as the apprentice to the emperor's dragon trainer.
    — Nina Derwin, Redbook, 6 July 2023
  • In later centuries, the task fell to the emperor, who functioned as both the political and religious head of the empire.
    — Byandrew Curry, science.org, 16 Apr. 2023
  • Nero ruled for fourteen years after becoming emperor of the then-young Roman empire at the age of 16.
    — Jenny Goldsberry, Washington Examiner, 29 July 2023
  • The announcement of the arrest comes three days after police found two emperor tamarin monkeys, Bella and Finn, in a house about 15 miles from the Dallas Zoo.
    — Timothy Bella, Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2023
  • Napoleon, who was exiled to the island in 1814, escaped and returned to France a year later, becoming emperor again.
    — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Nine days after Pin’s death, two emperor tamarin monkeys, Bella and Finn, were taken off zoo grounds.
    — Jamie Landers, Dallas News, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Egyptian pharaohs drank wine; so did some Chinese emperors.
    — Alex Mayyasi, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Nov. 2023
  • The Hindu emperor Ashoka, a convert to Buddhism, wrote about his efforts to give up meat and to forgo all practices that harmed animals.
    — Martha C. Nussbaum, Time, 4 Jan. 2023
  • A 17th century Dutch print of the last Inca emperor, Atahualpa, is altered to obscure the chains that bind him and replaces them with a dignified cloak.
    — Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2022
  • The emperor himself opened each year’s wine grape harvest by cutting a symbolic cluster of grapes and sacrificing a lamb to the god Jupiter.
    — Byandrew Curry, science.org, 16 Apr. 2023

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