Example sentences for: allegiance

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

  • But in turn the pope had to kneel in allegiance, and this exchange of spiritual blessing for military protection laid the seeds of future conflict between the papacy and secular rulers, compounded in 962 when Otto I was crowned Emperor of the newly formed Holy Roman Empire.

  • 2) The country's two prime ministers, who will run against each other in elections next year, are vying for the allegiance of Khmer Rouge bosses and are building well-armed rival armies of "bodyguards."

  • But it is known that it was used as an initiation ritual among friends and peers, to show solidarity and allegiance to a particular barrio.

  • In the featured essay, a German political analyst announces the end of Cold War anti-Americanism: Europeans who used to hate obnoxious Americans (because of forced allegiance) now want to imitate them (because they are relentlessly innovative).

  • Keen to win the allegiance of the Hindus, Akbar abolished most of the discriminatory taxes on non-Muslims, and recruited Rajputs for his army after marrying a daughter of Raja Bharmal of Amber, (though he did not flinch at massacring another 8,000 Rajput soldiers).


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