RULE in a Sentence

Learn RULE 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.

420 example sentences for RULE, such as:

1. The rule is still in effect.
2. There's an exception to every rule.
3. We shouldn't rule out a Democrat victory yet.
4. There is no general rule without some exception.
5. Our factory has a hard and fast rule against smoking.

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 Meanings and Examples of RULE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
rule
 n.  a principle
 v.  control or direct; govern
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  And such was his ability that, under his rule, the people very soon became admirable soldiers.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXI.
2  It was agreed between Tullus king of Rome, and Metius king of Alba, that the nation whose champions were victorious in combat should rule over the other.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXII.
3  For Genoa, as every one knows, has many times been occupied by the French king, who always, until lately, sent thither a French governor to rule in his name.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXI.
4  For which reason skirmishes are, as a rule, to be avoided, and only to be allowed where you fight to great advantage and with a certainty of victory.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XXXVII.
5  Their parents have a sort of rule and jurisdiction over them, when they come into the world, and for some time after; but it is but a temporary one.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
6  This rule, which the infinite wise maker hath set to the works of his hands, we find the inferior creatures steadily obey.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
7  the rule, should be placed somewhere; it naturally falls to the man's share, as the abler and the stronger.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
8  Thus the law of nature stands as an eternal rule to all men, legislators as well as others.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
9  Salus populi suprema lex, is certainly so just and fundamental a rule, that he, who sincerely follows it, cannot dangerously err.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
10  And therefore a king governing in a settled kingdom, leaves to be a king, and degenerates into a tyrant, as soon as he leaves off to rule according to his laws.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
11  All states, all powers, that have held and hold rule over men have been and are either republics or principalities.
The Prince By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I — HOW MANY KINDS OF PRINCIPALITIES THERE ARE, A...
12  Those who practise the first system are able, by aid of God or man, to mitigate in some degree their rule, as Agathocles did.
The Prince By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII — CONCERNING THOSE WHO HAVE OBTAINED A PRINC...
13  These principalities are liable to danger when they are passing from the civil to the absolute order of government, for such princes either rule personally or through magistrates.
The Prince By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX — CONCERNING A CIVIL PRINCIPALITY
14  Nicolo Machiavel, laid down this for a master rule in his.
The Prince By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII(*) — CONCERNING THE WAY IN WHICH PRINCES SH...
15  Princes, especially new ones, have found more fidelity and assistance in those men who in the beginning of their rule were distrusted than among those who in the beginning were trusted.
The Prince By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX — ARE FORTRESSES, AND MANY OTHER THINGS TO WHI...
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  A judge this week is to rule on a defense request to reduce or overturn her second-degree murder conviction.
17  We shouldn't rule out a Democrat victory yet.
18  Democratic government has now replaced military rule.
19  The golden rule when creating your design is: keep it simple.
20  The rule is still in effect.
21  As a general rule, all muscular effort is enhanced by breathing in as the effort is made.
22  It took many years of struggle to establish majority rule in South Africa.
23  There's an exception to every rule.
24  It's the rule of life that everything you have always wanted comes the very second you stop looking for it.
25  Our factory has a hard and fast rule against smoking.
26  The people revolted against foreign rule and established their own government.
27  It is the general rule, that all superior men inherit the elements ofsuperiority from their mother.
28  The game had a single inviolable rule: obstacles were to be overcome, not circumvented.
29  There is no general rule without some exception.
30  It is a rule of English that adjectives generally precede the noun they modify: we say "a good cry", not "a cry good".