7 sentences with 'enrich'
Example sentences and phrases with the word enrich and other words derived from it.
• « Caligula used treason trials to enrich himself after squandering the treasury on public buildings and games. »
• « The general pattern in the Roman imperial period is that the wealthy managed to enrich themselves from generation to generation, at the expense of the rest of Roman society: »
• « English kings and knights kept the war going because it was a way to enrich themselves - they would arrive in France with a moderately large force of armed men to plunder. »
• « The conquistadores were the military explorers sent by the Spanish crown to the Americas to claim land, convert the "heathens" and enrich themselves and the crown. »
• « While initial attempts at colonisation failed or struggled to survive (for example, almost all of the original settlers at Jamestown, Virginia, were dead by the time more arrived in 1610), the survivors discovered that they could grow at least one cash crop that would enrich them and tempt other Europeans to immigrate: tobacco. »
• « Napoleon's tendency to plunder occupied territories to enrich the French led many of his subjects to recognise the hypocrisy of his 'egalitarian' empire and, in the absence of their former kings, they began to see themselves as Germans and Italians and Spaniards rather than simply subjects of a king. »