ROYALTY in a Sentence

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22 example sentences for ROYALTY, such as:

1. I am no longer Royalist except towards that royalty.
2. The gala evening was attended by royalty and politicians.
3. The writer gets a 10 percent royalty on each copy sold of his book.
4. Radiating royalty, complacency, good humour, the wild child was Queen of the festival.
5. While he stood unshaken in royalty and potent in the councils of the kings, we too wore a name and honour.

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 Meanings and Examples of ROYALTY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
royalty
 n.  being royal; quality of royal person; kingship; sovereignty; share of product, as a percentage paid to owner of copyright
Classic Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1  That tyrant engendered royalty, which is authority falsely understood, while science is authority rightly understood.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT
2  This strange revolution had hardly produced a shock; it had not even paid to vanquished royalty the honor of treating it as an enemy, and of shedding its blood.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—WELL CUT
3  In the establishment which entitled itself order after the revolution had been cut short, the King amounted to more than royalty.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—LOUIS PHILIPPE
4  They strike it cleverly in its vulnerable spot, in default of a cuirass, in its lack of logic; they attacked this revolution in its royalty.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION
5  The flower-beds accepted the legitimate royalty of the lilies; the most august of perfumes is that which emanates from whiteness.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI—HOW FROM A BROTHER ONE BECOMES A FATHER
6  ; and that which they wished to overturn in overturning royalty in France, was, as we have explained, the usurpation of man over man, and of privilege over right in the entire universe.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE N...
7  I am no longer Royalist except towards that royalty.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING
8  Yes, Treville, yes," said the king, in a melancholy tone; "and it is very sad, believe me, to see thus two parties in France, two heads to royalty.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 6 HIS MAJESTY KING LOUIS XIII
9  Radiating royalty, complacency, good humour, the wild child was Queen of the festival.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 6
10  The purveyors of the Prince, who exercised on this and other occasions the full authority of royalty, had swept the country of all that could be collected which was esteemed fit for their master's table.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
11  This accomplished, the loyal Cedric hastened in quest of his friend Athelstane, determined, at every risk to himself, to save that last scion of Saxon royalty.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
12  He made, however, a last vigorous attack on Athelstane, and he found that resuscitated sprout of Saxon royalty engaged, like country squires of our own day, in a furious war with the clergy.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
13  While he stood unshaken in royalty and potent in the councils of the kings, we too wore a name and honour.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SECOND
14  He advancing before his ranks clamoured things fit and unfit to tell, and strode along lofty and voluble, his heart lifted up with his fresh royalty.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK NINTH
15  "Which seems to me the finest title under the royalty of July," replied Danglars.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 70. The Ball.
Example Sentence:
1  The writer gets a 10 percent royalty on each copy sold of his book.
2  The blue and gold windows – incorporating stars and lilies, emblems of the Virgin Mary and linked to royalty – are the first commissioned by the abbey in more than 10 years.
3  The gala evening was attended by royalty and politicians.
4  Obama and his wife reported income of $8 million in his first three years in office, largely from royalties on his memoirs, which were best-sellers because of his political fame. And the Obamas will soon go from rich to filthy rich.
5  The deal would also allow record companies, which have long complained about low per-stream payouts, to reap bigger royalties on YouTube.