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.
  • In the 2000s, at the height of her empire, Stewart made an odd fit for the era.
    — Constance Grady, Vox, 4 Nov. 2024
  • The British empire’s command over coal helped expand the realm to the ends of the earth.
    — Alexander C. Kaufman, The Atlantic, 2 May 2025
  • If a sheep dies at the very edge of the empire, it will be noted.
    — Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 20 Mar. 2025
  • It’s been for some time, since the beginning of the Benin empire.
    — Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 21 June 2024
  • But Lenin knew it from the start: The empire cannot survive without the Ukraine.
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022
  • At the moment of the UN’s creation, in 1945, Britain still had an empire that stretched across the globe.
    — Philippe Sands, The New York Review of Books, 23 June 2020
  • Brick by brick, the empire Luhnow built by hook and by crook will come apart.
    — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 13 Feb. 2020
  • Maybe there’s some irony in needing to prove this point with a five-movie empire of one’s own.
    — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 13 Dec. 2022
  • The photo launched Poosh and gave fans a sneak peek of her lifestyle empire.
    — Katie Intner, PEOPLE.com, 19 Dec. 2019
  • This is the last Bay Area location of what was once a small Bob’s empire.
    — Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 1 Apr. 2024
  • Any trace of Tony Cornero’s empire was erased a long time ago.
    — Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2021
  • Seize the day and carve out your empire and reach toward your legacy!
    — Kyle Thomas, People.com, 23 Feb. 2025
  • The items were from the Scythian empire and dated back to the fourth century B.C.
    — New York Times, 30 Apr. 2022
  • Within weeks of its formation in the spring of ’06, Hyde became the throne room at the end of empire.
    — Jeff Weiss, HollywoodReporter, 12 June 2025
  • The sky’s the limit for writers to build their own media empire.
    — Jaideep Singh, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2021
  • This dress has an empire waist and bell sleeves that add a touch of elegance.
    — Robin Raven, Travel + Leisure, 4 July 2025
  • Other pieces of the empire on the way out include MaxPreps.
    — Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 19 June 2024
  • But the male behavior is mangy enough that an empire hangs in the balance.
    — John Anderson, WSJ, 18 Nov. 2021
  • These two were the Chandler and Hammett of this purple-and-proud prose empire.
    — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 28 June 2021
  • But the empire’s decline in the 1400s may have been foreshadowed by Koh Ker’s demise.
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Feb. 2020
  • Frank, of German heritage, was born in 1899 in Ukraine, then part of the Russian empire.
    — Dave McIntyre, Washington Post, 14 July 2022
  • That moniker refers both to how these drug kingpins who built a $2 billion empire came to be known.
    — Andy Meek, BGR, 10 Aug. 2021
  • Rudy is depicted as an agent of the empire, but there’s a fault line in his being.
    — Jireh Deng, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Still, the empire Murdoch built, though vast, is dwindling.
    — WIRED, 21 Sep. 2023
  • But all that came to an end when her father's business empire collapsed in the wake of his death.
    — ABC News, 13 Feb. 2020
  • The fate of a real estate empire hinged on whether two brothers made a deal years ago.
    — Defne Karabatur, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2024
  • Early fairs showcased the spoils of empire; later fairs, the newest space tech, as the West raced Russia to the moon.
    — Cassie Werber, Quartz, 2 May 2023
  • Clarke first became friendly with Fox to explore new finance options for his empire.
    — Chris Yogerst, HollywoodReporter, 3 July 2025

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