Example sentences for: feudal

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

  • Con­se­quently, the realm broke up into the fiefdoms of the feudal Mid­dle Ages, precursors of the country’s classical provinces — Provence, Bur­gun­dy, Nor­mandy, Brittany, and so forth.

  • The chiefs governed their feudal domains by force, ritual, and taboo.

  • The succession of authoritarian rulers from the Middle Ages to the 18th century — Norman and Angevin French, German emperors, and the Spanish — kept in place a feudal system that has left the region to this day socially backward compared with the north.

  • But important though the resuscitated imperial authority undoubtedly was, the real power under the restoration known as Meiji (“Enlightened Rule”) was in the hands of a new generation of forward-looking administrators, who set about abolishing the ancient feudal apparatus in favor of a modern government based on merit rather than ancestry.

  • The Norman invaders brought with them armor, the use of horses in battle, and the feudal system.


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