throne
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For the 25,000th, someone made a throne of beer crates and sat on it, pint in hand.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
The king of dinosaurs has reclaimed his throne.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
Back in England, Edward the Confessor dies in January 1066 - and Harold claims the throne for himself.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
The monarch of American music had successfully reclaimed his throne.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
“His Majesty instructed me that no one should enter the throne room.”
From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack
The ceremony then culminated with Mullally being seated in two different thrones.
From Barron's ● Mar. 25, 2026
Warner Bros.’ sale has become the industry’s game of thrones.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2025
On Friday Netflix aced out Paramount Skydance and Comcast to win this game of media thrones.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025
Two thrones also used for props are up for sale.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2025
And, at the far end of the shed, Billy saw pink arches with azure draperies hanging between them, and an enormous clock, and two golden thrones, and a bucket and a mop.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
A hoarder of women, art, antiquities — and most of all, money — Getty also might have taken issue with Portia’s claim that mercy “becomes the throned monarch better than his crown.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 24, 2017
So Blatter is seeking to be throned for another four years as Fifa big cheese at the elections to be held in June.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 22, 2011
Behind the desk, in the chair, Franz Rosenzweig was throned.
From Time Magazine Archive
The spectacle of John L. Lewis on Organized Labor's pinnacle, throned on Coal and crowned with Steel, is not fantastic.
From Time Magazine Archive
A kingdom where kings are throned and dethroned daily.
From "Look Both Ways" by Jason Reynolds
Thus toward that throning bosom Where all earth is warmed,—each spot Nourished with autumnal blessings - Icy chill was Daphne caught.
From Poems — Volume 1 by Meredith, George
How heartily she rained them on the Tuileries and the majesty of the imperial court, throning on high above an abject and trembling people.
From Four Short Stories By Emile Zola by Zola, Émile
In our passage through life we meet scarcely any who do not persist, with a kind of unreasoning obstinacy, in throning the material within them, and there maintaining it supreme.
From The Buried Temple by Sutro, Alfred
Kenric was attired in the same fashion as on the day of his throning, but that he now wore no covering upon his head.
From The Thirsty Sword by Leighton, Robert
Don Enrique, returning, told me of it in his room at night, of the Christian service in the mosque and the throning in the Alhambra.
From 1492 by Johnston, Mary
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