Example Sentences

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Selective adoption had served the empire extremely well, producing a run of sound rulers that has come to be known as the Five Good Emperors.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 11, 2026

Rebecca Masri, founder of luxury travel app Little Emperors, has a solution for those dead set on returning to old favorites despite prices, weather and crowds: Go after Labor Day.

From Seattle Times • May 30, 2024

Ms Hardy said they range "across the reign of 14 Emperors and 1 Empress and include a previously unrecorded coin - a denarius of Emperor Tetricus I".

From BBC • Sep. 16, 2023

I kept thinking about how far he had come, from when they found him alone on that boat to this point, where he was taking on one of the Four Emperors by himself.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 1, 2023

The tremendous forest of Sherwood stretched round the tent-forest further than the eye could see—and this was full of wild boars, warrantable stags, outlaws, dragons, and Purple Emperors.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White