How to Use viceroy in a Sentence

viceroy

noun

• He may be seen as Vladimir Putin’s viceroy in Chechnya.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 5 Mar. 2020
• The world is sliding in a strange direction when a Prince wishes to become a viceroy.
  — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 9 Aug. 2017
• A viceroy, working to secure Afghanistan’s resources, threatens to do just this.
  — Deborah Avant, Washington Post, 12 July 2017
• Is Lakshmi under the impression that the Weingartens of the Bronx were descendants of a British viceroy?
  — David Harsanyi, National Review, 24 Aug. 2021
• Mexico’s love for bread dates back to the mid-1500s, when a viceroy dipped bread into hot chocolate in front of a crowd of people, reports the food website Eater.
  — Alixel Cabrera, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Dec. 2021
• In ‘‘Ouidah,’’ the titular viceroy’s daughter hoards some of her father’s possessions — ‘‘. .
  — Hanya Yanagihara, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2017
• For example, the scarlet king snake mimics the venomous coral snake, while the viceroy butterfly mimics the monarch butterfly, which is poisonous.
  — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 6 Mar. 2023
• Despite the viceroy’s instructions, the band of friars had zero interest in bartering.
  — Bruce Berger, WSJ, 12 July 2019
• In few other countries would someone born in Mr. Kovind’s circumstances end up occupying a 340-room sandstone palace built for the British viceroy during colonial rule.
  — Sadanand Dhume, WSJ, 20 July 2017
• In these special hideaways, guests can live like royals (if only for a night or two) and explore secret passageways, relax in private gardens, or stare out at vistas once reserved for the pope, the viceroy of Egypt, or Louis XV.
  — Michaela Trimble, Vogue, 30 June 2017
• Gandhi’s country, India, entered the European conflict in 1939 not out of any popular desire to quash Nazism but because its British viceroy had declared war on its behalf.
  — Daniel Immerwahr, The Atlantic, 4 Apr. 2022
• The butterfly—as well as another species, the viceroy—acquire the scent from feeding on wintergreen flowers, says Katy Prudic, an entomologist at the University of Arizona.
  — National Geographic, 23 Apr. 2016
• As Partition rumors spread, the servants eavesdrop on arguments between political leaders in the viceroy’s drawing rooms—and have their own disagreements about their country’s future.
  — Tufayel Ahmed, Newsweek, 10 Mar. 2017
• The heads of its regional combatant commands serve as viceroys — often better connected to foreign governments than ambassadors.
  — James F. Jeffrey, The Denver Post, 3 Mar. 2017
• Moving to India as viceroy, in 1888, provided him a grander stage and more difficult responsibilities, not least handling sectarian tensions between Hindus and Muslims and unrest in neighboring Afghanistan.
  — William Anthony Hay, WSJ, 26 Dec. 2018

Last Updated: 25 Aug 2024