How to Use kingdom in a Sentence

kingdom

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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The kingdom knows that if prices get too high, people will be forced to drive and fly less.
    — Matt Egan, CNN, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Like the queen of a kingdom, in moments of crisis her instinct was to act.
    — Marissa Charles, Peoplemag, 11 Oct. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • This season, the scandalous antecedent events of lust, love, and denial have caused a kingdom in chaos!
    — Okla Jones, Essence, 9 Oct. 2023
  • The methods that propelled you from a lowly count to the ruler of many kingdoms may not serve you well as emperor.
    — Barry Collins, Forbes, 17 Feb. 2024
  • Scotland has not been a kingdom since 1707, when the Act of Union brought it together with England.
    — Mark Landler, New York Times, 5 July 2023
  • Kings and kingdoms became deeply engaged with those ideas.
    — Brooke Schedneck, The Conversation, 31 May 2023
  • The Saudi crown prince even had a phone call with the president of Iran, the kingdom’s longtime rival and Hamas’s chief backer.
    — Ghaith Al-Omari, Foreign Affairs, 13 Oct. 2023
  • The kingdom, a key U.S. ally in the Middle East, has long denied any involvement.
    — Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 7 Dec. 2023
  • In July, the kingdom will send only 9 million bpd to market.
    — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 5 June 2023
  • This is thanks to Jordan, a tiny, resource-poor kingdom with barely any water, but lots of heart.
    — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Mar. 2024
  • In Season 2, everyone wants a bigger role in the kingdom.
    — Keith Nelson, Men's Health, 6 Aug. 2023
  • But because the Saudis will be selling less oil, a modest price hike will leave the kingdom with less revenue.
    — Peter Weber, The Week, 6 June 2023
  • The song fills in the audience about the kingdom and its ruler, and what happens to wishes that Magnifico collects.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 4 Dec. 2023
  • Hagen, bound by loyalty to the kingdom, is Lord Commander, ready to serve and stand by his king, Gunter.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 28 Feb. 2024
  • The kingdom slipped into a budget deficit this year after reporting a surplus in 2022 for the first time in almost a decade.
    — Hanna Ziady, CNN, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Ariel is the youngest daughter of King Triton, ruler of the undersea kingdom of Atlantica.
    — Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 13 Apr. 2023
  • The following month, the kingdom reduced production to a two-year low of about 9 million barrels a day.
    — Grant Smith, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2023
  • Once upon a time, there was a magic kingdom named the Reedy Creek Improvement District.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 28 Apr. 2023

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