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 would also prove an enormously elusive style of thinking, making it difficult to distinguish between the banal and the brilliant, between the imperially helpful and the imperially devastating.

From Salon • Dec. 8, 2018

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

What a year it’s been — Jay Leno involuntarily stepped down from “The Tonight Show” after 22 years and Stern just imperially stepped down from his NBA throne after 30 years .

From Washington Post • Feb. 16, 2014

Only, as we Britons are being taught to "think imperially," so must the nations learn in this matter to wish internationally.

From International Language Past, Present and Future: With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar by Clark, Walter John