How to Use pharaoh in a Sentence

pharaoh

noun

• Then the cool pharaohs would just make the base bigger.
  — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 20 July 2011
• Run caz LL chainz cam tip (both of them) thought pharaoh , face .
  — Colin Stutz, Billboard, 15 June 2017
• Some reliefs even show the ruling pharaoh as part of the group.
  — National Geographic, 25 June 2019
• As Joseph once told the pharaoh, good years must be used to prepare for bad years.
  — Bill Conerly, Forbes, 22 Sep. 2021
• However, Egypt claims the relic of the famed pharaoh was stolen.
  — Charlie D'agata, CBS News, 4 July 2019
• The pyramid, which is Egypt’s largest, was built to honor the pharaoh Khufu.
  — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 May 2024
• In Ancient Egypt, a young king becomes the first black pharaoh to deserve the hand of his loved one.
  — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 16 June 2022
• That’s when Queen Hatshepsut ruled as a pharaoh in Egypt.
  — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Aug. 2022
• Kind of like Moses being fed up with the pharaoh and leading the Israelites to freedom across the Red Sea.
  — Patricia Marx, The New Yorker, 30 July 2020
• And Susan thinks that Tiye wanted her son, Pentawere, to become the next pharaoh.
  — National Geographic, 16 July 2019
• Hatshepsut was born the daughter of a pharaoh, and married around the age of 12 or 13 to her brother.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 15 July 2022
• The Great Pyramids of Giza soar above the desert to illustrate the power and importance of the pharaohs buried there.
  — Ashley Gardini, JSTOR Daily, 11 June 2024
• The mummies, a male and a female, could have been priests who were important to the pharaoh, according to The Guardian.
  — Andrea Romano, Travel + Leisure, 13 July 2020
• The plot loosely tracks the life of Akhnaten, an 18th Dynasty Egyptian pharaoh, who ruled for 17 years.
  — Mary Spencer, National Review, 14 Dec. 2019
• King Tut, who was installed at age 8 or 9 and died a mere decade later, was a lesser pharaoh.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 23 June 2022
• Billy Porter was carried in by six shirtless pharaohs and flew gold wings.
  — USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2023
• So why is Tut’s bride buried in a different valley from the famous pharaoh?
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 19 Jan. 2018
• An Egyptian pharaoh was assured by his father in about 2010BC that the gods had made fish for humans to eat.
  — The Economist, 14 Dec. 2017
• One of their beliefs was that pharaoh would never die until his name was uttered for the very last time.
  — Chris Erskine, latimes.com, 30 Mar. 2018
• Sneferu, a pharaoh who ruled over Egypt in the 25th century B.C., commissioned the pyramid, which was the first to be built at Dahshūr.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 17 July 2019
• Last year, the museum opened its grand lobby, where a huge statue of the pharaoh Ramses II holds court.
  — George Nelson, ARTnews.com, 1 Nov. 2024
• Egyptian captives were branded with the name of a god, marking them as belongings of the priests or pharaoh.
  — Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 15 Sep. 2023
• The pharaoh who eluded the Victorians, of course, was Tutankhamun.
  — Michelle Green, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2019
• The king did indeed send one of his sons, who was killed on the border of Egypt by a general called Horemheb (who became the last pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty of Egypt).
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 19 Jan. 2018
• Among the artifacts in question is a pink granite stele bearing the seal of the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamen.
  — Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 27 May 2022
• From Heaven King Tut had a dagger made of iron—a treasured object in the ancient world worthy of few more than a pharaoh.
  — Jonathan Schifman, Popular Mechanics, 9 July 2018
• One of those included in the study had attained the high status of vizier and would have reported directly to the pharaoh in his time.
  — Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 27 Sep. 2024
• The pharaoh's skull, including his teeth in good condition.
  — Aylin Woodward, WSJ, 28 Dec. 2021
• My dinner party fact is about the Egyptian pharaoh Cleopatra.
  — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Sep. 2023
• One is based on ancient Egypt, where an archeological dig disturbs a pharaoh's tomb and triggers a curse.
  — Steph Solis, Axios, 7 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024