How to Use empress in a Sentence

empress

noun

• Catherine the Great was Empress of Russia.
• And so, the empress is cast aside to forge her own path in the Russian court.
  — Selena Barrientos, Good Housekeeping, 12 Feb. 2021
• Once on board, the 60-year-old empress fainted from blood loss and died that same night.
  — National Geographic, 14 May 2019
• As well as what price is required to be a true empress and a figure of hope.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 6 Oct. 2022
• Just a night or two before her death, the empress wrote a poem in her diary.
  — Nadine Zylberberg, ELLE, 22 Dec. 2022
• The empress played a direct role in many of these initiatives.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 May 2020
• 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
• Her great-grandmother was a first cousin of Napoleon’s empress.
  — Daniel Mendelsohn, The New Yorker, 6 June 2017
• Moriya and his father were set to meet the emperor and empress later that day.
  — Megan Friedman, Town & Country, 13 Aug. 2018
• For me as a historian of India, the empress is not an add-on.
  — Randy Dotinga, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 June 2018
• The group elects an emperor and an empress who serve as fund-raising chairs.
  — Jenny Block, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2023
• Along the way, he was feted by a Japanese empress and had an audience with the king of Spain.
  — New York Times, 14 June 2018
• Newspapers called her the queen, or sometimes the empress, of crafting.
  — Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2023
• Any sweater priced in the double digits, Lamb says, is unlikely to be fit for an empress.
  — Valentina Zarya, Fortune, 9 Dec. 2017
• Corsage takes place during one pivotal year in the empress’ life, 1878.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 23 Dec. 2022
• Elle Fanning looked every bit like a modern empress at the premiere of the third season of her series The Great.
  — Rosa Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 13 May 2023
• And, as the exhibition shows, some empresses could—and did—break through.
  — Susan Delson, WSJ, 20 July 2018
• The empress—who was pregnant again soon after giving birth—struggled to see her own child.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 3 Oct. 2022
• Think of the empress inside of you who operates with your best intentions in mind.
  — Devika Das, Forbes, 14 June 2021
• Many Russian readers would have seen in this encounter nothing more than a joke at the expense of the simple Cossacks, overawed by the grandeur of the palace and the empress.
  — Uilleam Blacker, The Atlantic, 10 Mar. 2022
• If Catherine’s enemies decided to back the false princess, the empress’s reign could be in jeopardy.
  — National Geographic, 6 Aug. 2019
• Thanks to her Netflix show, Marie Kondo is the empress of organizing these days.
  — Ann Lien, House Beautiful, 15 Jan. 2019
• The tsar and empress, however, believed Rasputin was saving the monarchy.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 27 Oct. 2022
• It was then auctioned off in 1778 in Amsterdam and sold to Russian empress Catherine the Great.
  — Time, 1 June 2018
• This empress was the most dangerous woman in Rome This empress was the most dangerous woman in Rome A man’s world?
  — Magazine, 2 Mar. 2023
• The new empress set to work consolidating her rule and her legacy.
  — Erin Blakemore, National Geographic, 1 Nov. 2019
• This empress in miniature has already bequeathed her moniker to the seven-carat Star of Josephine, and just earlier this week to the $28 million pink, now known as Sweet Josephine.
  — Stellene Volandes, Town & Country, 12 Nov. 2015
• Out of this ambivalence, the empress sets herself on a path of self-realization.
  — Thelma Adams, Variety, 5 Jan. 2023
• Nasa is everything -- future empress queen of New York.
  — Lyndsey Havens, Billboard, 17 June 2019
• Given that Queen Bee, a common nickname for Beyoncé, hasn't been singing since the '50s, many online instead ran with the empress part of the clue.
  — Kayla Keegan, Good Housekeeping, 10 Jan. 2019

Last Updated: 28 May 2024