18 sentences with 'crown'

Example sentences and phrases with the word crown and other words derived from it.

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• « She wore a crown of flowers in her hair. »

• « Needs a dental crown due to a deep cavity. »

• « The chief had a crown of colorful feathers. »

• « The king's crown was made of gold and diamonds. »

• « The jeweler carefully cleaned the emerald crown. »

• « The crown of the statue symbolized power and justice. »

• « The crown of thorns was an important religious symbol. »

• « The coat of arms of the royal family is a shield with a lion and a crown. »

• « The lion is a carnivorous mammal of the Felidae family known for its mane, which forms a crown around it. »

• « The shape of the hat's crown and the curve of the brim should express the personality of the wearer. »

• « His hat brim was stuck to the crown because of the wind, and he was grinning mischievously. There's no road! »

• « The major effort of the new royal officials (despised by the old nobility as "new men") was to expand the reach of the crown. »

• « Charlemagne established a group of officials who travelled throughout the empire inspecting the counties to ensure loyalty to the crown. »

• « The French crown introduced new taxes, such as the Gabelle (a salt tax) and the Taille (a household tax), which further burdened the commoners. »

• « The wind whipped the brim of my hat to the crown, I clung to the saddle and shouted a thousand times "Ya-ju!", "Yi-ja!" or, simply, "Giddyup, Josh!" »

• « The King of England, Edward III, was next in line, but powerful members of the French nobility rejected his claim and instead pledged to give the crown to a French nobleman from the royal line named Philip VI. »

• « All lands were legally the king's, and his nobles received their lands as "fiefs", essentially loans from the crown that had to be renewed by payments on the death of a landowner before they could be inherited. »

• « The games sought, in the words of one Greek poet, "either the crown of victory or death" (admittedly, that poet indulged in some hyperbole, since there is no evidence that defeated athletes actually committed suicide). »

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