empire

Example Sentences

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And yet Black Bear Sports Group has spent the past decade buying them up, building both an empire of hockey real estate and a much broader—and lucrative—youth hockey business.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

I’m looking into a freezer box at the fall of the Roman empire.

From Slate • May 8, 2026

Turner's television empire expanded beyond CNN and included TBS and TNT channels for sports and entertainment, Turner Classic Movies and Cartoon Network, among others.

From Barron's • May 6, 2026

Ted Turner, the brash media mogul who created CNN and revolutionized how Americans watched television, and who wielded his media empire and wealth to pursue liberal global causes and land conservation, has died.

From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2026

Over the history of the empire, thousands of Romans had served and died in Greece.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan