Example sentences for: monarchs

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

  • Even in the days of absolute monarchs, a person's home was his (or, to a lesser degree, her) castle.

  • Spain’s golden century began under the “Catholic Monarchs,” a title conferred by Pope Alexander VI on Ferdinand II and Isabella, who united the country under the Christian kingdoms of Aragon and Castile after the fall of Granada in 1492.

  • Main streets such as Queen Street and Duke of York Street recall the monarchs and individuals important to the British Crown.

  • By 907 the people could see, through all the turmoil and confusion, that the dynasty had lost the “mandate of heaven,” and so it was that the last of the Tang monarchs abdicated.

  • The new King resumed the ways of the two previous monarchs, abolishing laws against adultery and prostitution and taking up with his half sister; but powerful interests, particularly those of the flourishing foreign business community (which would be increasingly dominated by the descendants of the first missionaries), were intent on usurping the throne, in effect if not in name.


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