How to Use enthrone in a Sentence

enthrone

verb
  • Charles was the 40th sovereign to be enthroned in the abbey -- and, at 74, the oldest.
    — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 7 May 2023
  • Corporations have been enthroned, and an era of corruption in high places will follow.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 22 Aug. 2019
  • Hierarchies in art, with painting and sculpture enthroned at the top, don’t make sense either.
    — Holland Cotter, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2024
  • In the central niche are the remains of a fresco depicting Christ enthroned between angels.
    — Jim Berkeley, Town & Country, 5 Oct. 2016
  • Queen Consort Camilla will then be anointed, crowned and enthroned in a shorter ceremony.
    — Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2023
  • The spectacular folio on the left shows Christ in majesty, enthroned in an abstract eternity of glistening, polished gold.
    — Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2019
  • As petroleum minister, El Aissami was enthroned at the top of the industry.
    — Julia Malleck, Quartz, 21 Mar. 2023
  • In the upper level, Roma, the goddess of Rome, sits at the center on her throne in a relaxed pose, her eyes meeting those of Augustus, enthroned just to the right.
    — Judith H. Dobrzynski, WSJ, 21 Sep. 2018
  • Charles will be crowned, enthroned, handed various scepters and swords, receive various oaths of allegiance, and anointed in holy oil that was consecrated in Jerusalem itself.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 5 May 2023
  • Although Charles was a physically unprepossessing figure, he is made more magnificent by clothes, armor, jewels, and by his setting—atop a frisky slobbering steed, or enthroned before a robust column.
    — Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 17 Feb. 2018
  • The decision enthrones the high court—an unelected majority—as a group of technically incompetent, in some cases corrupt, politicos in robes with power over matters that hinge on vital facts about pollution, medicine, employment and much else.
    — The Editors, Scientific American, 10 July 2024
  • He will be officially enthroned on October 22nd, in a ceremony which the many grand guests, including the vice-president of China and the prime minister of South Korea, will watch only by video monitor from another part of the palace.
    — The Economist, 17 Oct. 2019

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