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.
• This is the last Bay Area location of what was once a small Bob’s empire.
  — Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 1 Apr. 2024
• Still, the empire Murdoch built, though vast, is dwindling.
  — WIRED, 21 Sep. 2023
• 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
• The actress wore the prettiest black empire waist gown with a flowing sheer skirt.
  — Briannah Rivera, Seventeen, 14 Apr. 2023
• And even once scanned, a street continues to evolve: Buildings are torn down, trees grow taller, empires fall.
  — WIRED, 2 Aug. 2023
• Here are a few of the most notable investments in Altman’s empire.
  — Gerrit De Vynck, Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2023
• 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 case led to the ouster of some of the sport’s longest-serving leaders, tearing down empires and creating room for fresh faces.
  — Tariq Panja, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2024
• The fans turn slow overhead in the dim rooms of empire’s afterlife, and the shades of British accountants work through the heat and the day’s ledgers and their latest letter to Martha.
  — Oliver Munday, The Atlantic, 28 Aug. 2023
• Villages, towns, cities, nations and empires are all in players hands.
  — Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2024
• That idea has blossomed into an empire that, 20 years on, continues to grow and give back.
  — Julissa James, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2024
• By the end of the season, even he’s come around to realizing that lording over a drug empire might be his true calling in life.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Feb. 2024
• The Perini empire grew from there, with the guest quarters opening on the property in 2007, giving out-of-towners a place to stay a day or two.
  — Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas News, 4 May 2023
• Russia’s view of itself as a great empire is not a Soviet thing.
  — Leon Aron, National Review, 11 Nov. 2023
• Bratz Dolls One of the brands considered the biggest threat to Barbie’s empire was Bratz, which was hugely popular in the 2000s.
  — Jennifer Hassan, Washington Post, 23 July 2023
• Originally built as a church where rulers of the empire were crowned, it was later converted to a mosque.
  — Meagan Drillinger, Travel + Leisure, 28 Sep. 2023
• And Poison shows Dahl’s debt to Rudyard Kipling in a knowing depiction of the empire’s defects.
  — Armond White, National Review, 15 Mar. 2024
• The potential cash crunch at Selfridges is just one element of the fallout from the rapid collapse of the Signa empire.
  — Libby Cherry, Fortune Europe, 29 Dec. 2023
• The actress wore a sheer white plunging Givenchy Haute Couture gown from the Winter 1996 collection with an empire waist and cap sleeves.
  — Hedy Phillips, Peoplemag, 11 Mar. 2024
• Bitcoin booths opened in the Grand Bazaar, next to the gold-trading stalls where people once sheltered their money when empires collapsed.
  — Leif Wenar, WIRED, 2 Apr. 2024
• She was later hailed as a martyr for her role in the revolution after the empire was overthrown in 1911.
  — Brahmjot Kaur, NBC News, 9 Aug. 2023
• The changes make Rupert’s eldest son the undisputed leader of the media empire his father built over decades.
  — David Hamilton, Fortune, 24 Sep. 2023
• The league had outposts in every corner of the former empire, from Moldova to Tajikistan, and all of them performed in the Russian language.
  — Simon Shuster, TIME, 4 Jan. 2024
• And last week, the European Union unveiled a complaint of its own that seeks to get Google to sell off parts of its advertising tech empire.
  — Gerrit De Vynck, Washington Post, 20 June 2023
• These countries had empires in the past, and tend to feed their populace nostalgic delusions of grandeur in place of civic freedoms.
  — Melik Kaylan, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
• One focuses on the sheer power of Zuckerberg’s Meta empire—Threads is now the fastest-growing app in history.
  — Alex Thomas, The New Republic, 13 July 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024