MONARCHY in a Sentence

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27 example sentences for MONARCHY, such as:

1. To them, the monarchy is the special symbol of nationhood.
2. The monarchy in England plays an important role in British culture.
3. It remains unclear what will happen to the current king, if the monarchy is abolished.
4. Where he had formerly beheld the fall of the monarchy, he now saw the advent of France.
5. Some nationalists would like to depict the British monarchy as a purely English institution.

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 Meanings and Examples of MONARCHY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
monarchy
 n.  government under a single ruler
Classic Sentence: (19 in 2 pages)
1  The whole of the monarchy is contained in the lounger; the whole of anarchy in the gamin.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—HE MAY BE OF USE
2  Let it be said by the way, that this abandonment of children was not discouraged by the ancient monarchy.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—A BIT OF HISTORY
3  Besides this, the monarchy sometimes was in need of children, and in that case it skimmed the streets.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—A BIT OF HISTORY
4  It has mingled, though with regret, the secular grandeurs of the monarchy with the new grandeurs of the nation.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—REQUIESCANT
5  Where he had formerly beheld the fall of the monarchy, he now saw the advent of France.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAVING MET A WARDEN
6  He did not understand how men could busy themselves with hating each other because of silly stuff like the charter, democracy, legitimacy, monarchy, the republic, etc.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IV—M. MABEUF
7  during the voyage from Cherbourg, causing a round table to be cut over into a square table, appeared to be more anxious about imperilled etiquette than about the crumbling monarchy.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—WELL CUT
8  Well, the monarchy is a foreigner; oppression is a stranger; the right divine is a stranger.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER III—THE EXTREME EDGE
9  Fierce Lynch law, with which no one party had any right to reproach the rest, for it has been applied by the Republic in America, as well as by the monarchy in Europe.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—DISORDER A PARTISAN OF ORDER
10  The majority of them, when talking freely, did justice to this king who stood midway between monarchy and revolution; no one hated him.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE N...
11  The tradition of carriage-loads of maskers runs back to the most ancient days of the monarchy.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE 16TH OF FEBRUARY, 1833
12  For where we have a monarchy, an aristocracy, and a democracy existing together in the same city, each of the three serves as a check upon the other.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II.
13  But had Selim, son to Bajazet, been like his father, and not like his grandfather, the Turkish monarchy must have been overthrown; as it is, he seems likely to outdo the fame of his grandsire.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIX.
14  In these cases Barclay, the great champion of absolute monarchy, is forced to allow, that a king may be resisted, and ceases to be a king.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
15  The entire monarchy of the Turk is governed by one lord, the others are his servants; and, dividing his kingdom into sanjaks, he sends there different administrators, and shifts and changes them as he chooses.
The Prince By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV — WHY THE KINGDOM OF DARIUS, CONQUERED BY ALEX...
Example Sentence:
1  It remains unclear what will happen to the current king, if the monarchy is abolished.
2  But its biggest challenge to the current form of monarchy is to its entanglement with the Church of England.
3  The report calls for a comprehensive modernization of the monarchy to bring it more into line with other European constitutional monarchies.
4  The monarchy in England plays an important role in British culture.
5  Some nationalists would like to depict the British monarchy as a purely English institution.
6  To them, the monarchy is the special symbol of nationhood.
7  Support for the monarchy has declined during the investigation amid a broader institutional crisis in the country, while the King's deteriorating health has fuelled calls for his abdication.
8  The general who led the military takeover of Thailand is known as an ardent defender of the monarchy, an adversary of the former prime minister at the center of the nation's political crisis, and a prickly personality prone to snap at unwanted questions.