How to Use empire in a Sentence

empire

noun

• He controlled a cattle empire in the heart of Texas.
• She built a tiny business into a worldwide empire.
• In the 2000s, at the height of her empire, Stewart made an odd fit for the era.
  — Constance Grady, Vox, 4 Nov. 2024
• It’s been for some time, since the beginning of the Benin empire.
  — Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 21 June 2024
• But Lenin knew it from the start: The empire cannot survive without the Ukraine.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022
• Maybe there’s some irony in needing to prove this point with a five-movie empire of one’s own.
  — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 13 Dec. 2022
• This is the last Bay Area location of what was once a small Bob’s empire.
  — Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 1 Apr. 2024
• The items were from the Scythian empire and dated back to the fourth century B.C.
  — New York Times, 30 Apr. 2022
• Other pieces of the empire on the way out include MaxPreps.
  — Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 19 June 2024
• Frank, of German heritage, was born in 1899 in Ukraine, then part of the Russian empire.
  — Dave McIntyre, Washington Post, 14 July 2022
• Still, the empire Murdoch built, though vast, is dwindling.
  — WIRED, 21 Sep. 2023
• The fate of a real estate empire hinged on whether two brothers made a deal years ago.
  — Defne Karabatur, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2024
• Early fairs showcased the spoils of empire; later fairs, the newest space tech, as the West raced Russia to the moon.
  — Cassie Werber, Quartz, 2 May 2023
• But in the late 1700s, Catherine the Great, the Russian empress, colonized it with hardy souls from across the empire.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 17 Sep. 2022
• Google’s search engine, of course, is the cornerstone of its empire.
  — Richard Nieva, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2023
• The actress wore the prettiest black empire waist gown with a flowing sheer skirt.
  — Briannah Rivera, Seventeen, 14 Apr. 2023
• The Aztecs were a bigger empire and there's lots more documentation done on the Aztecs than there was the Mayans.
  — Bianca Betancourt, Harper's BAZAAR, 11 Nov. 2022
• It’s where the empire grew much of its food, built and kept many of its weapons, and stored a chunk of its nuclear arsenal.
  — Marc Fisher, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Feb. 2022
• How Johnson built an empire Johnson had a eventful life from the start.
  — Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 1 May 2024
• And even once scanned, a street continues to evolve: Buildings are torn down, trees grow taller, empires fall.
  — WIRED, 2 Aug. 2023
• After the destruction of Troy by the Greeks, Aeneus, the hero of the story, leads what’s left of the people of Troy on a journey to form a new city, a new empire.
  — Roger Valdez, Forbes, 6 June 2022
• Here are a few of the most notable investments in Altman’s empire.
  — Gerrit De Vynck, Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2023
• That brings us to the Dance of the Dragons, the name the poets of Westeros gave to a gruesome civil war that brought the thriving empire to its knees.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 26 Aug. 2022
• Even Instagram, the darling of the Meta empire, is not immune.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 29 May 2022
• RuPaul’s media empire, the movie presents Tammy Faye as a camp icon.
  — Armond White, National Review, 1 Apr. 2022
• This marks the first time in almost 30 years that part of Trump’s business empire is going public.
  — Alexandra Banner, CNN, 26 Mar. 2024
• Since then, Bhatt has built a social media watch empire.
  — Dylan Sloan, Fortune, 3 Feb. 2024
• At stake in the case is the fate of the Trump Organization in New York, where it was founded and grew into an empire.
  — Graham Kates, CBS News, 10 Jan. 2024
• The vibe: Everything here might be inspired by an old-world empire, but the space is decidedly modern, cool and elegant.
  — Chelsea Brasted, Axios, 30 Oct. 2024
• Stewart honed the homemaking skills upon which her empire was built at a four-acre former onion farm dubbed Turkey Hill in Westport, Connecticut.
  — Michelle Duncan, Architectural Digest, 5 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 25 Nov 2024