How to Use empress in a Sentence

empress

noun
  • Catherine the Great was Empress of Russia.
  • As well as what price is required to be a true empress and a figure of hope.
    — Andy Meek, BGR, 6 Oct. 2022
  • As well as what price is required to be a true empress and a figure of hope.
    — Andy Meek, BGR, 17 Aug. 2022
  • And so, the empress is cast aside to forge her own path in the Russian court.
    — Selena Barrientos, Good Housekeeping, 12 Feb. 2021
  • Just a night or two before her death, the empress wrote a poem in her diary.
    — Nadine Zylberberg, ELLE, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Once on board, the 60-year-old empress fainted from blood loss and died that same night.
    — National Geographic, 14 May 2019
  • The empress played a direct role in many of these initiatives.
    — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 May 2020
  • Her great-grandmother was a first cousin of Napoleon’s empress.
    — Daniel Mendelsohn, The New Yorker, 6 June 2017
  • Moriya and his father were set to meet the emperor and empress later that day.
    — Megan Friedman, Town & Country, 13 Aug. 2018
  • All that rampant growth means empress trees will turn into your worst garden nightmare.
    — Andrea Beck, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 May 2023
  • The empress—who was pregnant again soon after giving birth—struggled to see her own child.
    — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 3 Oct. 2022
  • If physics is the queen of science, then mathematics is the empress.
    — Big Think, 16 Jan. 2025
  • And, as the exhibition shows, some empresses could—and did—break through.
    — Susan Delson, WSJ, 20 July 2018
  • For me as a historian of India, the empress is not an add-on.
    — Randy Dotinga, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 June 2018
  • Think of the empress inside of you who operates with your best intentions in mind.
    — Devika Das, Forbes, 14 June 2021
  • Newspapers called her the queen, or sometimes the empress, of crafting.
    — Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Any sweater priced in the double digits, Lamb says, is unlikely to be fit for an empress.
    — Valentina Zarya, Fortune, 9 Dec. 2017
  • The new empress set to work consolidating her rule and her legacy.
    — Erin Blakemore, National Geographic, 1 Nov. 2019
  • Corsage takes place during one pivotal year in the empress’ life, 1878.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 23 Dec. 2022
  • Out of this ambivalence, the empress sets herself on a path of self-realization.
    — Thelma Adams, Variety, 5 Jan. 2023
  • In comics, Shalla-bal was the empress of her planet until Galactus came through to eat it up.
    — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 3 Apr. 2024
  • She was set to flee the country to escape the clutches of an ancient evil empress who happened to be her wicked stepmother.
    — Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 30 Mar. 2025
  • The results show an artist still confident two decades into her career, because very few can pull that black-and-red empress look off.
    — Brian Josephs, Billboard, 14 Aug. 2019
  • This one is about a cleric named Chih and an old woman, Rabbit, who tells them stories about an empress.
    — Veronica Roth, Peoplemag, 18 June 2024
  • His courtship of the empress Catherine proved equally unavailing.
    — Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 20 June 2022
  • Gwendoline Christie, too, presided in her red and white Roman empress gown.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 23 Sep. 2019
  • Along the way, he was feted by a Japanese empress and had an audience with the king of Spain.
    — New York Times, 14 June 2018
  • The tsar and empress, however, believed Rasputin was saving the monarchy.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 27 Oct. 2022
  • If Catherine’s enemies decided to back the false princess, the empress’s reign could be in jeopardy.
    — National Geographic, 6 Aug. 2019
  • The empress returns to her chambers to weep, only to be strangled by a eunuch under the noble consort’s orders.
    — Lavender Au, The Dial, 30 June 2026

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