Sentences with 'thrones'
Example sentences and phrases with the word thrones and other words derived from it.
• « That meeting lasted months, thanks in part to the inconvenience of Napoleon's return from Elba and his last stand at Waterloo, but in 1815 it concluded, having rewarded victorious kingdoms with territorial gains and restored conservative monarchs to the thrones of states such as Spain and France itself. »
• « Countries such as Iraq, Transjordan and the Nadj (the forerunner of today's Saudi Arabia) were simply invented by British politicians, often with compliant Arab leaders thrown onto newly invented thrones in the process. »