British Empire

Example Sentences

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They read Wong Kim Ark and other sources as having incorporated British common-law doctrine deeming anyone born in the British Empire a subject of the crown.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 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

In 2004, she was made a Dame of the British Empire.

From BBC • Dec. 31, 2025

Terence Higgins:, external Represented Great Britain at the 1948 and 1952 Olympics and won a silver medal at the 1950 British Empire Games in New Zealand in the 4x400m relay.

From BBC • Dec. 18, 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