KING in a Sentence

Learn KING from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

296 example sentences for KING, such as:

1. An owl is the king of the night.
2. The king escaped disguised as a girl.
3. 'A cat may look at a king,' said Alice.
4. They were arrested in the name of the king.
5. It was like a king's canopy, a fairy king's.

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 Meanings and Examples of KING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
king
 n.  a competitor who holds a preeminent position
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  'A cat may look at a king,' said Alice.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland By Lewis Carroll
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII. The Queen's Croquet-Ground
2  It was like a king's canopy, a fairy king's.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
3  It was like being taken in state round the country of a magic king and queen and shown all the mysterious riches it contained.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
4  Well, if they like it, Tom, all right; but I don't want to be a king and have only just a given name, like a nigger.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
5  So the duke and the king went to overhauling our wigwam, to see what the beds was like.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX.
6  Well, the duke allowed he would take my bed; but the king allowed he wouldn't.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX.
7  The king told us to stand well out towards the middle of the river, and not show a light till we got a long ways below the town.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX.
8  The king got out an old ratty deck of cards after breakfast, and him and the duke played seven-up a while, five cents a game.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX.
9  So the duke he told him all about who Romeo was and who Juliet was, and said he was used to being Romeo, so the king could be Juliet.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX.
10  The king allowed he would go, too, and see if he couldn't strike something.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX.
11  The king got the directions, and allowed he'd go and work that camp-meeting for all it was worth, and I might go, too.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX.
12  So me and the king lit out for the camp-meeting.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX.
13  The king said, take it all around, it laid over any day he'd ever put in in the missionarying line.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX.
14  The duke was thinking he'd been doing pretty well till the king come to show up, but after that he didn't think so so much.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX.
15  The king and the duke turned out by and by looking pretty rusty; but after they'd jumped overboard and took a swim it chippered them up a good deal.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI.
Example Sentence: (86 in 6 pages)
16  The king was concerned about the safety of the realm.
17  The king abdicated his throne, and the country became a republic.
18  All the men in the court bowed to the king as he entered.
19  The king made laws and imposed them by force.
20  The king escaped disguised as a girl.
21  The king promised to hold a great feast for all his people.
22  I'm not some kind of nerd, I'm the king of nerds.
23  A month or two later they executed the king.
24  The ambassador personally conveyed the president's message to the king.
25  The duke was the king's most trusted adviser.
26  They were arrested in the name of the king.
27  He is fabled to be the national son of a king.
28  An owl is the king of the night.
29  Speak with contempt of none,form slave to king,the meanest bee,and will use,a sting.
30  The king exiled one of his official for murder.