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
The monarch of American music had successfully reclaimed his throne.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
They remain on very different trajectories, with William's life heading remorselessly to the point where he will take to the throne.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
In 1605, Bellarmine would almost certainly have been elected Pope, but declined to offer himself as a candidate, preferring to be the power behind the throne.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
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
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
It is a scale replica of a Edwardian-style royal residence and has a grand piano, lavishly decorated bedrooms, a pair of velvet and silver thrones and a wine cellar with tiny bottles of real champagne.
From BBC ● Jan. 30, 2024
They were like great figures seated upon thrones.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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
They have commanded knights and serfs, taken walled towns and sat throned among their armies.
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
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
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
The king and queen, my lady dear, Touching the throning, for my sake Some salutary counsel take.
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)
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
On every side, where'er he came, He heard glad words, their theme the same, As in their joy the gathered folk Of Ráma and the throning spoke.
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)
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