British Empire
Example Sentences
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The Trump administration is seeking to have his image on a $250 bill to celebrate the country's 250th anniversary since independence from the British Empire.
From Barron's • May 29, 2026
This wasn’t a partition under the aegis of the British Empire: It happened 24 years after the British left.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026
The stolen items were from the collection of the former British Empire & Commonwealth Museum, which was donated to the Bristol Museum after its liquidation in 2013.
From BBC • Jan. 29, 2026
In 2004, she was made a Dame of the British Empire.
From BBC • Dec. 31, 2025
Born in 1871 to a handyman and his wife in New Zealand when it was a remote outpost of the British Empire, Rutherford became an intuitive theorist and the preeminent experimental physicist of his age.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
