British Empire
Example Sentences
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In 2022, she was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire during Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee, recognizing Tyler’s contributions to music.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
Nobody in the colonies liked the Stamp Tax, and protests broke out all around the British Empire, but Ms. Pearsall’s wider lens reveals that “protest did not lead inexorably to revolution.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
The Trump administration is seeking to have his image on a $250 bill to celebrate the country's 250th anniversary since independence from the British Empire.
From Barron's ● May 29, 2026
The war was fought between 1899 and 1902 between the British Empire and the two independent Boer states who were vying for control of South Africa.
From BBC ● May 12, 2026
All these things—the flags, the pitch pipe songs, the British Empire and the princesses, the war orphans, even the strappings —are superimposed against the ominous navy-blue background of Miss Lumley’s invisible bloomers.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
