Example sentences for: lords

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

  • At bottom, his conjecture is that the entire song relates to a pilgrimage to Jerusalem from England, where (two) turtle doves is interpreted as `de tour Douvres,' whither one must go to cross to France, to `lors de Liban,' yielding (eleven) lords a-leaping . Each step of the way the reader is increasingly persuaded that Bernard has taken the right road, but I shall leave the remaining details of the expedition to buyers of the book.

  • The daughter of the second wife of Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and therefore dubbed a bastard by the papists, the Protestant Elizabeth ascends the throne to find the air still thick with smoke from roasted heretics, a team of skulking Catholics plotting her assassination, and a council of advisers (lords, bishops, sundry old boys) who snigger openly at the prospect of taking orders from a woman.

  • But the crucial ruling, both leads report, was the lords' 3-2 decision that torture and hostage taking are not legitimate government functions.

  • The town was fortified against rival lords, and against the seawater — the River Amstel being dammed at what is now Dam Square.

  • The British press was dominated Thursday by a debate in the House of Lords on the Labor government's planned abolition of the parliamentary rights of hereditary peers.


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