How to Use enthrone in a Sentence

enthrone

verb
  • In the upper level, Roma, the goddess of Rome, sits at the center on her throne in a relaxed pose, her eyes meeting those of Augustus, enthroned just to the right.
    Judith H. Dobrzynski, WSJ, 21 Sep. 2018
  • In the central niche are the remains of a fresco depicting Christ enthroned between angels.
    Jim Berkeley, Town & Country, 5 Oct. 2016
  • Ngugi does not wish to enthrone his experience as unique.
    Ariel Dorfman, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2018
  • Corporations have been enthroned, and an era of corruption in high places will follow.
    Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 22 Aug. 2019
  • The spectacular folio on the left shows Christ in majesty, enthroned in an abstract eternity of glistening, polished gold.
    Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2019
  • Queen Consort Camilla will then be anointed, crowned and enthroned in a shorter ceremony.
    Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2023
  • As petroleum minister, El Aissami was enthroned at the top of the industry.
    Julia Malleck, Quartz, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Charles will be crowned, enthroned, handed various scepters and swords, receive various oaths of allegiance, and anointed in holy oil that was consecrated in Jerusalem itself.
    Matt Ford, The New Republic, 5 May 2023
  • Symeonides was enthroned March 17 as Metropolis of Chicago.
    Karen Herzog, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 Apr. 2018
  • Inside the gendarmerie station, Javed was met by the commander—an aristocratic-looking man with a powerful jaw—in full military uniform, enthroned behind a big wooden desk.
    Matthew Wolfe, Harper's magazine, 10 Feb. 2019
  • He will be officially enthroned on October 22nd, in a ceremony which the many grand guests, including the vice-president of China and the prime minister of South Korea, will watch only by video monitor from another part of the palace.
    The Economist, 17 Oct. 2019
  • Although Charles was a physically unprepossessing figure, he is made more magnificent by clothes, armor, jewels, and by his setting—atop a frisky slobbering steed, or enthroned before a robust column.
    Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 17 Feb. 2018
  • The Chinese model, with its newly enthroned president for life, has the same appeal as Mussolini’s efficient and short-term effective management of the Italian economy combined with the same national glory the Chinese are currently pursuing.
    WSJ, 4 May 2018

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