How to Use emperor in a Sentence

emperor

noun
  • Dan Asia points to him like the boy pointing to the emperor.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 24 June 2021
  • The emperor’s new clothes have been exposed for the country and the world to see.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 5 July 2024
  • 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
  • The emperor Claudius once ordered them to be shut down.
    Brigit Katz, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Dec. 2020
  • But even the most powerful emperor can fly too close to the sun.
    Helen Raleigh, National Review, 28 Dec. 2020
  • 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 Biden campaign and the White House have done their best to cover up but everyone can see that the emperor has no clothes.
    Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 12 July 2024
  • Putin's remarks came during a speech to mark the 350th anniversary of the emperor's birth.
    Landon Mion, Fox News, 12 June 2022
  • That is, until someone points out that the emperor has no clothes and that the dollar no longer has value.
    WSJ, 25 Dec. 2020
  • The trees were planted to commemorate the visit of the emperor and empress of Japan in 1994.
    Vanessa Arredondo, SFChronicle.com, 7 Jan. 2021
  • The same process led to emperors from Spain, and, eventually, Libya.
    Christopher Tayler, Harper's Magazine, 18 Dec. 2023
  • But the media can be equally slow to recognize that the emperor has no clothes.
    Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 24 May 2022
  • In the games, the emperor is actually Shao Kahn, and there's a statue of him spotted in the new trailer.
    Nick Romano, EW.com, 18 Feb. 2021
  • Go for the emperor, a variety of snapper from the Mediterranean Sea.
    Shivani Vora, Forbes, 1 June 2021
  • Few viable routes out of the flames remained, but the emperor and his men managed to make a narrow escape.
    Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Sep. 2024
  • Roman emperors once lived there, and their crumbling fortress walls still wind through the landscape.
    Leif Wenar, WIRED, 2 Apr. 2024
  • The stock market these days might remind some people of that old story about the emperor’s new suit.
    Jj Kinahan, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2021
  • But rather than chat about the pint-size 19th-century French emperor, Scott is here to talk robots.
    Dalton Ross, EW.com, 18 Mar. 2022
  • Natalya comes across the scene and kills Francesca before announcing to all and sundry that the emperor has been murdered.
    Sean T. Collins, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2024
  • The Mughal emperor Humayun chilled summer fruit juice into a frozen sherbet in the mid-1500s.
    Tulasi Srinivas, The Conversation, 23 Dec. 2020
  • 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
  • But a growing chorus is pointing out the emperor has no clothes.
    Lee Reiners, WSJ, 25 May 2021
  • China had been an empire until 1911, ruled by emperors from the Forbidden City.
    The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2025
  • Image Image Image Instead of being the reserve of the emperor and his entourage, the grand escalier and the golden grand foyer were for anyone who had a ticket — whether a very expensive season pass or a cheaper evening seat.
    Elliott Verdier, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025

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