imperially
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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Securing the dynasty’s rule required replacing local military leaders with imperially appointed mandarins, civilian government officials who could advise and, when necessary, restrain the generals on matters of foreign policy.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
It's come home imperially, believe it or not, in the very form of Grandpa Joe.
From Salon ● Feb. 27, 2021
They are also another excuse to revisit historic Britain at its most jolly decent and imperially mighty, which never hurts.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 18, 2017
Life is that which — pressingly, persistently, unfailingly, imperially — interrupts.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 23, 2016
A life more dramatic than that of Marie de Medicis has seldom been written; one more imperially tragic, never.
From Memoirs of the Court and Cabinets of George the Third From the Original Family Documents, Volume 2 by Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville, Duke of
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