Words similar to abdication

Example sentences for: abdication

How can you use “abdication” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

The last doge presented his abdication to Napoleon here.
It was here in 1952 that King Farouk signed his abdication before boarding his yacht for exile in Italy.
His policy succeeded for a time, but following his abdication in a.d. 305, the empire continued to weaken, harassed by invaders and troubled by internal strife.
His 20-year reign, weak at best, ended in all-round disaster: abdication, arrest, and war.
In Japan, the country's biggest selling newspaper, Asahi Shimbun , led Wednesday with the discovery of a diary showing that Emperor Hirohito never considered abdication at the end of World War II, even though his country was in ruins and he was worried about being prosecuted by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East.