How to Use kingdom in a Sentence

kingdom

noun
  • After Queen Mary I died, her half sister Elizabeth ruled the kingdom.
  • 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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