Examples of kaiser in a Sentence
Donald Beaulieu, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2023
Thereafter, Germany became the kaiser writ large, the nation’s aspirations an outgrowth of the kaiser’s insecurities.
—Washington Post, 7 Jan. 2022
The bakery was out of cinnamon rolls, and Jacob arrived with ordinary kaisers, which neither of them liked.
—Cynthia Ozick, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Apr. 2023
If a totalitarian regime forcibly occupied TSMC, in other words, its kaiser would never get its partner democracies on the phone.
—Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, 21 Mar. 2023
Think of the kaiser and World War I, the Tojo regime leading into World War II, Kim Il Sung in Korea, the Soviets in Afghanistan, Saddam Hussein against Iran and Kuwait.
—Michael O’Hanlon, WSJ, 9 Mar. 2022
And the flight of the kaiser along with the deposing of eighteen princely houses meant the termination of numerous court positions reserved for nobility.
—Christopher R. Browning, The New York Review of Books, 15 June 2021
Foreign opinion, high and low, held the kaiser responsible for German militarism and aggression.
—Isabel V. Hull, The New York Review of Books, 21 Mar. 2019
Many Americans wanted to smash the kaiser’s army and push for unconditional surrender; Wilson supported an armistice.
—Roger Lowenstein, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2018
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Word History
Middle English, from Old Norse keisari; akin to Old High German keisur emperor; both from a prehistoric Germanic word borrowed from Latin Caesar, cognomen of the Emperor Augustus
13th century, in the meaning defined above
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“Kaiser.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/kaiser. Accessed 5 Oct. 2023.
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