Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: emperors
IPA transcription: ['ɛmpɚɚz]
Pronunciations of emperors
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Usage examples
  • It was some time before the bait took, but at length--even emperors are only men!
  • "You are like a murderer--you are like a slave-driver--you are like the Roman emperors!"
  • She was treated as an equal by the men of her class, as is witnessed by letters we still have from popes and emperors to abbesses.
  • The crowd unexpectedly found itself so close to the Emperors that Rostov, standing in the front row, was afraid he might be recognized.
  • The battalions shouted "Hurrah!" and "Vive l'Empereur!" Napoleon said something to Alexander, and both Emperors dismounted and took each other's hands.
  • There was Jingo, too, who had won fame and lasting honor by her wonderful fighting, and was so great she had to sit by the emperors and look down on the other empresses.
  • "The concentration of property," says M. Laboulaye, "while causing extreme poverty, forced the emperors to feed and amuse the people, that they might forget their misery.
  • Possessing such power and prestige, it is not surprising to learn that abbesses wielded great influence in temporal as well as spiritual matters; that it pervaded politics and extended to the courts of kings and emperors.
  • From a tender regard to the expiring prejudices of Rome, the Barbarian declined the name, the purple, and the diadem, of the emperors; but he assumed, under the hereditary title of king, the whole substance and plenitude of Imperial prerogative.
  • Their public ones, were such as were common to both sexes; as bathing, theatrical representations, horse-races, shows of wild beasts, which fought against one another, and sometimes against men, whom the emperors, in the plenitude of their despotic power, ordered to engage them.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording William the Conqueror, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Han dynasty, License CC BY-SA 4.0