How to Use kingdom in a Sentence
kingdom
noun- After Queen Mary I died, her half sister Elizabeth ruled the kingdom.
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The wealth and prestige of whole kingdoms rode the waves with them.
— Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 20 Feb. 2024 -
With keys to the kingdom, Marlène opened the door to a mayen and put us to work.
— Marlise Kast-Myers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 May 2024 -
Which just gives its king even less time to hold on to the kingdom.
— Josh St. Clair, Men's Health, 13 Nov. 2022 -
This mighty fortress, lying at the heart of England, was one of the largest in the kingdom.
— Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 June 2024 -
Let these weirdos rule the kingdom, at least for a couple of weeks.
— Vulture, 25 Jan. 2024 -
At the time, very little was known of the ancient kingdom.
— Roger Catlin, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 June 2023 -
This person was in fact the crown prince of a kingdom in what is now the Gambia.
— Anderson Tepper, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2023 -
Link can now fight back against forces that threaten the kingdom, all in the palm of their hand.
— Jake Henry Smith, Glamour, 2 Aug. 2024 -
In virtually any age and any culture, the health of the king was the health of the kingdom.
— Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2024 -
The move formalized his role as ruler of the kingdom, though the king remains the head of state.
— Edward Wong, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Dec. 2022 -
Asha, the hero of the kingdom Rosas, is a conduit for empathy.
— Ken Makin, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Nov. 2023 -
But in a kingdom built on secrets and lies, hope doesn’t come cheap.
— Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 15 Dec. 2023 -
Thomas Cromwell, who truly wielded the keys to the kingdom.
— Tina Brown, New York Times, 15 Dec. 2022 -
The kingdom knows that if prices get too high, people will be forced to drive and fly less.
— Matt Egan, CNN, 27 Sep. 2023 -
Both were filmed in Neom, a sprawling area along the kingdom’s Red Sea coast.
— Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 4 Apr. 2024 -
Like the queen of a kingdom, in moments of crisis her instinct was to act.
— Marissa Charles, Peoplemag, 11 Oct. 2023 -
All the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them, were in that giddy moment spread beneath her.
— Tessa Hadley, The New Yorker, 23 June 2024 -
The swan, after all, is the national bird of this fairy-tale kingdom.
— Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 6 Feb. 2024 -
That assembly, or synod, would bring the kingdom’s church in line with the Catholic Church in Rome.
— Marc Ramirez, USA TODAY, 28 Apr. 2023 -
Florence Pugh is now the president of the sheer kingdom.
— Carrie Wittmer, Glamour, 22 Mar. 2023 -
The snake’s name, Trimeresurus lanna, pays homage to an ancient kingdom that once ruled the same land.
— Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 5 Apr. 2024 -
Saudi Arabia's code of male guardianship served to keep the daughter in the kingdom.
— CBS News, 9 Nov. 2022 -
Black people, in this telling, could be proud of their roots in the ancient kingdom that built some of the world’s greatest splendors.
— Vivian Yee, New York Times, 19 June 2023 -
But streaming became king, and De La’s music wasn’t in the kingdom.
— Elahe Izadi, Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2023 -
Paesano added to it by using oil drums, again with the notion that the oil drum existed in the kingdom.
— Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 10 May 2024 -
The teens must travel back in time to save the kingdom, naturally.
— Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 23 Mar. 2023 -
Pelops promised half the kingdom to Myrtilus in return for his betrayal after the king lost the race and was killed.
— Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 28 Jan. 2024 -
Zelda herself is something of a blank slate — a beloved royal on the run after imposters take over her kingdom.
— James Perkins Mastromarino, NPR, 25 Sep. 2024 -
After all, the kingdom of fashion that had welcomed him with an open embrace eventually spat him out.
— Cathleen Chen, CNN, 2 Oct. 2024
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