British Empire

Example Sentences

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They read Wong Kim Ark and other sources as having incorporated British common-law doctrine deeming anyone born in the British Empire a subject of the crown.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

This wasn’t a partition under the aegis of the British Empire: It happened 24 years after the British left.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026

Welsh was not an institutionalised or official language so it wasn't considered a suitable medium for education during the Victorian heyday of the British Empire.

From BBC • Dec. 7, 2025

Raising a handful of muddy salt from the sea, he declared himself to be "shaking the foundations of the British Empire".

From BBC • Nov. 29, 2025

In Britain and the British Empire the Gregorian calendar, the calendar we use now, was introduced by law in 1752.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton