How to Use imperial in a Sentence

imperial

adjective

• Butler had more even ground to fight on — first the sands of the arena, then the smooth tiles of the imperial palace.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 3 Mar. 2024
• As well as harkening back to the great imperial legacies of the czars.
  — CBS News, 7 Dec. 2022
• Phillips had high hopes for the imperial Ref. 96 Quantieme Lune.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 23 May 2023
• The bee was the French imperial emblem and also the emblem of Clovis, first king of the Francs.
  — Thomas Adamson, Fortune, 9 June 2023
• Once again, the show occupies the timeline after the fall of the Empire, where the threat of imperial remnants lingers.
  — Brian Lowry, CNN, 22 Aug. 2023
• Her son realized that some part of him—a child born after the collapse of the U.S.S.R.—identified with the imperial center.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2023
• The show is built of three-episode arcs, most of which feature a new location and, largely, a new cast, from the imperial heist to the floating prison.
  — Phillip MacIak, The New Republic, 17 Feb. 2023
• For at least one night, at the World Cup in Qatar, the scars of imperial history will be covered by Moroccan red and green.
  — Khaled A. Beydoun, CNN, 13 Dec. 2022
• But what about the cruel swindle of the slave trade, and of imperial domination?
  — Lynn Steger Strong, The New Republic, 15 Sep. 2023
• The imperial stout base was first aged in bourbon barrels for a year and then transferred to Ruby Port barrels for a year.
  — Em Sauter, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
• Here was a man who, faced with Britain’s imperial collapse, did not cower but dashed around the world with a dinner jacket and a pistol.
  — Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
• The capital relocated to Beijing in the 1400s, and the imperial families brought those tasty roast duck recipes -- and the chefs -- with them.
  — Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN, 13 Oct. 2022
• An imperial stout aged for over a year in Hogshead Whiskey barrels with sweet cherries, cocoa, and cold brew coffee.
  — oregonlive, 20 Jan. 2023
• Hers was the last imperial coronation, as the British Empire was crumbling.
  — Karla Adam, Washington Post, 5 May 2023
• Against what enemy, and in what grandiose imperial design, does the United States seek to enlist the Israeli host?
  — Jordan Castro, Harper's Magazine, 9 Jan. 2024
• To stop the adoption of metric units in the UK and preserve the country’s traditional imperial measures.
  — James Vincent, The Verge, 16 Jan. 2023
• But most of them are not imperial governors nor at risk of becoming one.
  — Raymond Scheppach, Fortune, 30 Aug. 2023
• Perhaps nowhere else in Ukraine did Russia’s leader, Vladimir Putin, devote so much money and violence, the carrot and the stick, to bend a city to his imperial will.
  — Jeffrey Gettleman, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Dec. 2022
• Of those 50 imperial eggs, five haven’t been seen since the Russian revolution.
  — Stu Woo and Aruna Viswanatha, WSJ, 7 Dec. 2022
• In imperial Rome, it was obtained from the coloring substance of murex, a rare shell from the Mediterranean, which is why it was reserved only for the leaders and the emperor.
  — Selene Oliva, Glamour, 18 Sep. 2023
• The bones of some of them were returned to Russia for reburial as a sign of national healing, and the revival of Russia as an imperial power.
  — Andrew Higgins, BostonGlobe.com, 24 June 2023
• Most of the boys fulfilled the goals set out originally by the Chinese imperial government.
  — Susan Dunne, Hartford Courant, 31 Oct. 2022
• Mainland China enforces a complete ban on the export of Chinese art produced before the end of imperial rule in 1911.
  — Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2023
• The all-out invasion by Russia, meant to subjugate Ukraine and bring it into Moscow’s imperial orbit, was meant to take three days, yet the war still rages on with no end in sight.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 24 Feb. 2023
• But America’s actions were hesitant and minor compared with those of the imperial powers of the old world.
  — Samuel Moyn, The New Republic, 14 Feb. 2023
• Cumming’s post comes amid a growing backlash against the monarchy for its role in British imperial history.
  — Niamh Kennedy, CNN, 27 Jan. 2023
• Sending a clear message through fashion, Placidia wore imperial silks and Athaulf the armor of a Roman general.
  — Tony Perrottet, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Jan. 2023
• Its causes are structural, and can be traced back through centuries of colonial plunder and imperial excess.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 20 Dec. 2022
• In a village near Heihe, a larger-than-life-size statue of an imperial Chinese general still glares across the Amur River.
  — Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 21 Dec. 2023
• Bowling was born in Guyana in 1934, when the country was still subject to Britain’s brutal imperial experiment.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024