THRONE in a Sentence

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And, between two yeomen, was brought before the silvan throne of the outlaw Chief, our old friend, Prior Aymer of Jorvaulx.

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 Meanings and Examples of THRONE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
throne
 n.  the chair of state for a monarch
 v.  put a monarch on the throne
Classic Sentence: (64 in 5 pages)
1  Isa thought her gaze was fixed because she saw God there, God on his throne.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
2  For helpers, issuing swiftly from the bushes, carrying hurdles, had enclosed the Queen's throne with screens papered to represent walls.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 6
3  A train of pages and of young maidens, the most beautiful who could be selected, gaily dressed in fancy habits of green and pink, surrounded a throne decorated in the same colours.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
4  Nay, nay," said De Bracy, "let the fair sovereign's throne remain unoccupied, until the conqueror shall be named, and then let him choose the lady by whom it shall be filled.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
5  While he was yet speaking, the marshals brought forward the Disinherited Knight to the foot of a wooden flight of steps, which formed the ascent from the lists to Prince John's throne.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
6  It is thus," said Prince John, "that we set the dutiful example of loyalty to the Queen of Love and Beauty, and are ourselves her guide to the throne which she must this day occupy.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
7  Through a field slippery with blood, and encumbered with broken armour and the bodies of slain and wounded horses, the marshals of the lists again conducted the victor to the foot of Prince John's throne.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
8  On the lower step of this throne the champion was made to kneel down.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
9  To tread, when the glad Sun is on his throne.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
10  It was in vain that he attempted to dazzle her with the prospect of a visionary throne.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
11  The envoy of Tosti," he said, "moved up the hall, undismayed by the frowning countenances of all around him, until he made his obeisance before the throne of King Harold.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
12  And, between two yeomen, was brought before the silvan throne of the outlaw Chief, our old friend, Prior Aymer of Jorvaulx.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII.
13  There was brave feasting in the Castle of York, to which Prince John had invited those nobles, prelates, and leaders, by whose assistance he hoped to carry through his ambitious projects upon his brother's throne.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
14  On the present occasion, a throne was erected for the Grand Master at the east end, surrounded with seats of distinction for the Preceptors and Knights of the Order.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
15  Then the master stood over him during a few awful moments, and finally moved away to his throne without saying a word.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
Example Sentence: (16 in 2 pages)
1  There is something behind the throne greater than the king him-self.
2  A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.
3  Edward renounced his claim to the French throne.
4  He has relinquished his claim to the throne.
5  The king abdicated his throne, and the country became a republic.
6  He was the legal heir to the throne.
7  The present king succeeded to the throne upon the death of his father.
8  Her duty was to produce an heir to the throne.
9  The revolution ended when the victorious rebel general succeeded in his attempt to usurp the throne.
10  When Edward VIII did abdicate the British throne to marry the woman he loved, he surprised the entire world.
11  Because the two older princes dismissed their youngest brother as a nonentity, they did not realize that he was quietly plotting to seize the throne.
12  The potentate spent more time at Monte Carlo than he did at home on his throne.
13  The sons, heirs to the Theban throne, quarrel over who will assume the kingship and they slay each other.
14  By what instinct do you pretend to distinguish between a fallen seraph of the abyss and a messenger from the eternal throne -- between a guide and a seducer?
15  But the shy man who went informally by the name of Bertie found himself on the throne after the abdication crisis sparked by his elder brother, Edward VIII, in 1936.