How to Use archduke in a Sentence

archduke

noun

• We had been told to climb over a metal gate off a side road at Son Marroig, the former estate of an Austrian archduke, to find the unmarked trail.
  — Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2021
• The family needs money, the last of the line dies, or the old archduke’s armor gives the Gen X heir night sweats — such occasions sharpen the animal spirits, and off to Maastricht the art goes.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 11 Mar. 2020
• The poor archduke and his wife were assassinated this morning in Serbia. . . .
  — Anna Mundow, WSJ, 3 Aug. 2018
• The archduke, who heads the historic House of Habsburg-Lorraine, has been in self-quarantine since March 12 after testing positive for the virus.
  — Vulture Editors, Vulture, 9 Jan. 2021
• The archduke disregarded the warning and proceeded to Bosnia Wednesday.
  — sandiegouniontribune.com, 29 June 2018
• On March 17, Karl von Habsburg, the archduke of Austria, confirmed he had been diagnosed with coronavirus.
  — Vulture Editors, Vulture, 9 Jan. 2021
• Admiration for French fare did not divert Benito Juárez from waging a successful guerrilla war; in less than five years the archduke was overthrown.
  — Jim Kempton, Orange County Register, 2 Aug. 2019
• How in the world could the assassination of an archduke who is a second level official in Sarajevo in June of 1914 have created a conflagration that was so devastating that historians had to create a whole new category to describe it?
  — CBS News, 11 Nov. 2020
• In 1914 an archduke’s murder in Sarajevo caused economically interdependent states in Europe to fight a giant war of survival, so why can’t disputes over Asian rocks, reefs and artificial islands create a massive conflagration today?
  — Thomas J. Christensen, New York Times, 12 May 2017

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024