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

Ancient, patriarchal and oracular, Tennyson was not merely the poet laureate of England; he was, like his queen, a symbol of the British Empire.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

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

From BBC • Dec. 31, 2025

Old Filth himself is a retired judge looking back on life, with recollections of the British Empire in better days.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025

All these things—the flags, the pitch pipe songs, the British Empire and the princesses, the war orphans, even the strappings —are superimposed against the ominous navy-blue background of Miss Lumley’s invisible bloomers.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood