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.
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In the 2000s, at the height of her empire, Stewart made an odd fit for the era.
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Constance Grady,
Vox,
4 Nov. 2024
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It’s been for some time, since the beginning of the Benin empire.
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Mankaprr Conteh,
Rolling Stone,
21 June 2024
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But Lenin knew it from the start: The empire cannot survive without the Ukraine.
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David Remnick,
The New Yorker,
21 Feb. 2022
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Maybe there’s some irony in needing to prove this point with a five-movie empire of one’s own.
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K. Austin Collins,
Rolling Stone,
13 Dec. 2022
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This is the last Bay Area location of what was once a small Bob’s empire.
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Martha Ross,
The Mercury News,
1 Apr. 2024
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Any trace of Tony Cornero’s empire was erased a long time ago.
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Los Angeles Times,
26 May 2021
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Seize the day and carve out your empire and reach toward your legacy!
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Kyle Thomas,
People.com,
23 Feb. 2025
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The items were from the Scythian empire and dated back to the fourth century B.C.
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New York Times,
30 Apr. 2022
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The sky’s the limit for writers to build their own media empire.
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Jaideep Singh,
Forbes,
28 Dec. 2021
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Other pieces of the empire on the way out include MaxPreps.
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Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
19 June 2024
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But the male behavior is mangy enough that an empire hangs in the balance.
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John Anderson,
WSJ,
18 Nov. 2021
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These two were the Chandler and Hammett of this purple-and-proud prose empire.
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Rob Sheffield,
Rolling Stone,
28 June 2021
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Frank, of German heritage, was born in 1899 in Ukraine, then part of the Russian empire.
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Dave McIntyre,
Washington Post,
14 July 2022
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That moniker refers both to how these drug kingpins who built a $2 billion empire came to be known.
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Andy Meek,
BGR,
10 Aug. 2021
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Still, the empire Murdoch built, though vast, is dwindling.
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WIRED,
21 Sep. 2023
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The fate of a real estate empire hinged on whether two brothers made a deal years ago.
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Defne Karabatur,
Los Angeles Times,
11 May 2024
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Early fairs showcased the spoils of empire; later fairs, the newest space tech, as the West raced Russia to the moon.
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Cassie Werber,
Quartz,
2 May 2023
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But in the late 1700s, Catherine the Great, the Russian empress, colonized it with hardy souls from across the empire.
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BostonGlobe.com,
17 Sep. 2022
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While Chase wrestles with his lot in life, Pat is building a talk show empire.
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Dan Snierson,
EW.com,
14 July 2021
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Lisa Frank was very hands-on in the early days of running her rainbow empire.
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Angela Andaloro,
People.com,
6 Dec. 2024
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Google’s search engine, of course, is the cornerstone of its empire.
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Richard Nieva,
Forbes,
11 Jan. 2023
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The actress wore the prettiest black empire waist gown with a flowing sheer skirt.
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Briannah Rivera,
Seventeen,
14 Apr. 2023
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The Aztecs were a bigger empire and there's lots more documentation done on the Aztecs than there was the Mayans.
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Bianca Betancourt,
Harper's BAZAAR,
11 Nov. 2022
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At our nation’s founding, America was the refuge for colonists seeking to throw off the yoke of the British empire.
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Andrew Tisch,
Forbes,
14 Oct. 2021
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It’s where the empire grew much of its food, built and kept many of its weapons, and stored a chunk of its nuclear arsenal.
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Marc Fisher,
Anchorage Daily News,
23 Feb. 2022
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How Johnson built an empire Johnson had a eventful life from the start.
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Sasha Hupka,
The Arizona Republic,
1 May 2024
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And even once scanned, a street continues to evolve: Buildings are torn down, trees grow taller, empires fall.
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WIRED,
2 Aug. 2023
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Taiwan was clearly an outpost of American empire, but the U.S. presence was benevolent in certain ways.
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Jon Lee Anderson,
The New Yorker,
25 Feb. 2025
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