How to Use emperor in a Sentence

emperor

noun
  • One of the emperor’s pages was shrewd like this.
    — Hazlitt, 19 Nov. 2025
  • The emperor was not, in fact, clad in the finest suit.
    — Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 30 Oct. 2025
  • The emperor was naked, a fool who’d been had.
    — Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 30 Oct. 2025
  • The emperor had clothes all along.
    — Kevin Stankiewicz,alexa Lomonaco, CNBC, 16 Apr. 2026
  • The emperor doesn’t have any clothes.
    — Peter White, Deadline, 15 Aug. 2025
  • The emperor appears naked with his head bowed.
    — Andrea Onate, Footwear News, 25 June 2026
  • The bank of a family that lent to popes and emperors may be up for sale.
    — Abhishek Shanker, Bloomberg, 20 Mar. 2026
  • But even the most powerful emperor can fly too close to the sun.
    — Helen Raleigh, National Review, 28 Dec. 2020
  • Once in a while, a very bad emperor was said to have rounded up the disabled.
    — Literary Hub, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Cancer is still, and has been for a long time, the emperor of all maladies.
    — Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 7 Aug. 2019
  • The group elects an emperor and an empress who serve as fund-raising chairs.
    — Jenny Block, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2023
  • The emperor’s new clothes have been exposed for the country and the world to see.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 5 July 2024
  • What will Bayta do with a young emperor?
    — Rafael Motamayor, Vulture, 12 Sep. 2025
  • As in the story of the emperor’s new clothes, there was one person on the stage who could see it.
    — Susan Shelley, Oc Register, 8 Feb. 2026
  • These are not the words of emperors or senators.
    — Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 9 Mar. 2026
  • The emperor pleads with us that to try and withhold change is a mistake of the most basic kind.
    — Theodore McDarrah, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2023
  • But this wasn’t a case of the emperor having no clothes, Figgis makes clear.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 19 Sep. 2025
  • The emperor hasn’t had any clothes for many a year, and now his subjects are about to see him in all his naked glory.
    — WSJ, 14 June 2018
  • The emperor approached the pope with a plea to heal the now forty-year-old Great Schism.
    — Simon Jenkins, Harper's magazine, 10 Apr. 2019
  • The bodies of the emperor and his wife remain interred in the Taj to this day.
    — Margot Bigg, Travel + Leisure, 28 Jan. 2024
  • Her mother, the emperor’s favourite!
    — Hazlitt, 19 Nov. 2025
  • That is, until someone points out that the emperor has no clothes and that the dollar no longer has value.
    — WSJ, 25 Dec. 2020
  • The emperor took an active interest in the project.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 9 Apr. 2026
  • The emperors fled, but Verus succumbed to the disease on the road to Rome.
    — Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Perhaps ironically or not, this emperor is as naked as a jay bird.
    — Arkansas Online, 10 Jan. 2026
  • And for the viewers sharp-eyed enough to catch it, there’s a god-emperor-has-no-clothes joke tucked into the setting.
    — Vulture, 2 Jan. 2023
  • The folly of the ancient Roman emperors springs to mind here.
    — Susan B. Glasser, New Yorker, 16 Apr. 2026
  • The death of the emperor in 1521 signaled the end of the mission.
    — Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 6 June 2020
  • The emperor died by suicide as the British overpowered his forces.
    — Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 May 2023
  • Been aching for a trip to Israel but in the era of Roman emperor Tiberius?
    — Trevor Fraser, orlandosentinel.com, 20 Oct. 2019

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