Sample Sentences for
coronation
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    You wouldn't survive the coronation night.†  (source)
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    But when the Augur named Cain announces the coronation, I stifle a gasp.†  (source)
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    "Speaking of your coronation," said the queen, "I have brought you a gift."†  (source)
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    The coat of arms from the door of Napoleon's coronation carriage hung on the wall in the study.†  (source)
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    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)
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    She took charge and helped me pick out the dress I wouldwear for the coronation.†  (source)
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    Once they were like the coronations of a king, or the inauguration of a president.†  (source)
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    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)
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    But the only thing to be considered here, is this—what kind of oil is used at coronations?†  (source)
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    "I command the council to make all the necessary arrangements for my coronation," the boy proclaimed.†  (source)
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    The coronation is part of the wedding.†  (source)
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    Three days later, word of the ascent reached Queen Elizabeth on the eve of her coronation, and the Times of London broke the news on the morning of June 2 in its early edition.†  (source)
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    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)
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