coronation

in a sentence

For not only was the piece pure in the metallurgical sense, the winking double eagle on the reverse confirmed to the experienced eye that it was one of the five thousand coins minted in commemoration of Catherine the Great's coronation.†  (source) Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow, 2016

The coat of arms from the door of Napoleon's coronation carriage hung on the wall in the study.†  (source) John Berendt, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, 1994

Or will it be to Rome for your coronation as the next Pope Pius?†  (source) Yann Martel, Life of Pi, 2001

Will you be watching the coronation, at least?†  (source) Marissa Meyer, Cinder, 2012

Once they were like the coronations of a king, or the inauguration of a president.†  (source) Margaret Craven, I Heard the Owl Call My Name, 1967

Since hosting the coronation of William the Conqueror on Christmas Day in 1066, the dazzling sanctuary has witnessed an endless procession of royal ceremonies and affairs of state—from the canonization of Edward the Confessor, to the marriage of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson, to the funerals of Henry V, Queen Elizabeth I, and Lady Diana.†  (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

So that on a morning when she awoke in high spirits she would raze the clothes closets, empty the trunks, tear apart the attics, and wage a war of separation against the piles of clothing that had been seen once too often, the hats she had never worn because there had been no occasion to wear them while they were still in fashion, the shoes copied by European artists from those used by empresses for their coronations, and which were scorned here by highborn ladies because they were identical to the ones that black women bought at the market to wear in the house.†  (source) Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera, 1988

"I command the council to make all the necessary arrangements for my coronation," the boy proclaimed.†  (source) George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones, 1996

But the only thing to be considered here, is this—what kind of oil is used at coronations?†  (source) Herman Melville, Moby Dick, 1851

It had been left to him to choose the date of her coronation, and he had picked noon on January 15, 1559.†  (source) Michael Scott, The Alchemyst, 2007

You wouldn't survive the coronation night.†  (source) Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen, 2015

The coronation is part of the wedding.†  (source) Kiera Cass, The One, 2014

One part bacchanal, one part tribal potlatch, one part vestigial New England supper, the entire affair hinged on the coronation of the Strawberry Princess—always a virginal Japanese maiden dressed in satin and dusted carefully across the face with rice powder—in an oddly solemn ceremony before the Island County Courthouse at sundown of the inaugural evening.†  (source) David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars, 1995