Example Sentences

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World War I demolished empires and destroyed kings, kaisers and sultans.

From New York Times • Nov. 9, 2018

Latvians have fled the armies of Vikings, a Swedish king, kaisers, czars and czarinas, the general secretary of the Communist Party’s Central Committee, and the Führer.

From Washington Post • Aug. 10, 2017

The war destroyed kings, kaisers, czars and sultans; it demolished empires; it introduced chemical weapons, tanks and airborne bombing; it brought millions of women into the work force, hastening their legal right to vote.

From New York Times • Jun. 26, 2014

I have consecrated my life service to the kings of Prussia and the former kaisers.

From Time Magazine Archive

How absurd the pomp of kings and kaisers, how grotesque their assumption of greatness!

From The Girl from Alsace A Romance of the Great War, Originally Published under the Title of Little Comrade by Stevenson, Burton Egbert