throne

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

The monarch of American music had successfully reclaimed his throne.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026

So when Kim Jong Il passed away in 2011, Kim Jong Un, who was 27 at the time, secured his spot on the throne.

From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026

Winds swirled around his throne and took the form of horses.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

The ceremony then culminated with Mullally being seated in two different thrones.

From Barron's ● Mar. 25, 2026

The objects, which include richly embroidered vestments and lavishly sculpted monstrances, Eucharist thrones and sanctuary lamps made of jewel-studded precious metals, are eye-catchingly high Baroque.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2025

Two thrones also used for props are up for sale.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2025

Foo Fighters fired its new drummer Josh Freese this year, just two years into his tenure behind one of the most coveted thrones in rock following the death of Taylor Hawkins in 2022.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2025

When princes failed to repay the Iron Bank, new princes sprang up from nowhere and took their thrones.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

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

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

Behind the desk, in the chair, Franz Rosenzweig was throned.

From Time Magazine Archive

A kingdom where kings are throned and dethroned daily.

From "Look Both Ways" by Jason Reynolds

Whate'er the rites of throning need Placed on a car the way shall lead: The sacred vessels I will take To the wild wood for Ráma's sake.

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)

These kings sought to crown that semi-barbarous occupation of North Italy during two centuries by throning themselves in Rome, and making the Pope their vassal.

From The Formation of Christendom, Volume VII by Allies, Thomas W.

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

According to the ethics of the day, he was a model citizen, whereas Antony throning as Osiris with a female Mithridates for consort, was as oblivious of Roman dignity as of conjugal faith.

From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Saltus, Edgar

Frederic, though great in royal throning, Well may amaze the earth, and heaven, When clothed by thunder and the levin Swerves he before the hero's fanfare.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 by Mabie, Hamilton Wright