MONARCH in a Sentence

Learn MONARCH 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.

40 example sentences for MONARCH, such as:

1. The monarch looks to the archbishop for spiritual direction.
2. I have faith only in God and the lofty destiny of our adored monarch.
3. I do not wish to utilize the fortunes of war to humiliate an honored monarch.
4. The monarch regarded himself as omnipotent and responsible to no one for his acts.
5. Every detail of the interview was communicated to the Russian monarch, and the war began.

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 Meanings and Examples of MONARCH
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monarch
 n.  king; sole and absolute ruler; sovereign, such as a king or empress
Classic Sentence: (33 in 3 pages)
1  I have faith only in God and the lofty destiny of our adored monarch.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I
2  The rider, whose figure seemed familiar to Rostov and involuntarily riveted his attention, made a gesture of refusal with his head and hand and by that gesture Rostov instantly recognized his lamented and adored monarch.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XVIII
3  "No, I won't miss my opportunity now, as I did after Austerlitz," he thought, expecting every moment to meet the monarch, and conscious of the blood that rushed to his heart at the thought.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XX
4  The general bowed his head respectfully, and the monarch mounted and rode down the street at a gallop.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XX
5  Every detail of the interview was communicated to the Russian monarch, and the war began.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER VII
6  I do not wish to utilize the fortunes of war to humiliate an honored monarch.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XIX
7  He caused the words Maison de ma Mere to be inscribed on the charitable institutions, thereby combining tender filial affection with the majestic benevolence of a monarch.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER IX
8  This was my sincere endeavour in those many discourses I had with that monarch, although it unfortunately failed of success.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER VII.
9  Besides, as it is in the power of the monarch to raise the island above the region of clouds and vapours, he can prevent the falling of dews and rain whenever he pleases.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER III.
10  For, with respect to that part of the earth over which the monarch presides, the stone is endued at one of its sides with an attractive power, and at the other with a repulsive.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER III.
11  This loadstone is under the care of certain astronomers, who, from time to time, give it such positions as the monarch directs.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER III.
12  The continent, as far as it is subject to the monarch of the flying island, passes under the general name of Balnibarbi; and the metropolis, as I said before, is called Lagado.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER IV.
13  The Emperor of Japan, on a steady old white horse stencilled with black spots, was twirling five wash-hand basins at once, as it is the favourite recreation of that monarch to do.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI
14  Prince John, though not yet a monarch, had in Waldemar Fitzurse all the inconveniences of a favourite minister, who, in serving his sovereign, must always do so in his own way.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
15  But no man ventured directly to gainsay a pledge filled to the health of the reigning monarch.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
Example Sentence:
1  51-year-old Tuheitia Paki is the eldest son of the previous monarch, who died last week at the age of 75, after a reign of 40 years.
2  The monarch regarded himself as omnipotent and responsible to no one for his acts.
3  To this day, the monarch is the “commander-in-chief” of the British armed forces.
4  Although the King was an absolute monarch, he did not want to behead his unfaithful wife without certain evidence.
5  In the Orient, however, it had long been the custom to revere a monarch as if he were a divinity.
6  The intervention by Thailand's revered monarch two weeks ago is more likely to have influenced their verdict.
7  The monarch looks to the archbishop for spiritual direction.